A Sweet Girl Graduate

d Priscilla's initials were worked on the top in large plain letters. Her initials were P. P. P., and they stood for Priscilla Penywern

e told you everyth

and I'm to try not to be nervous. I don't suppose I shall be- I

girls doing hard things if they must. I can understand any one doing anything that has to be

arly nineteen, but her face was older. It was an almost careworn face, thoughtful,

butter and poured out some te

dumpy. She had a sensible, downright sort of face, and she took life with

done a great deal more than I thought I had all day. I think I'll go

early, Au

our fees will be all right, of course, and your trav

oh, yes; everythi

position a little and looked

n her sedate voice. "I am not rich, but I'll allow you- yes, I'll manage to allow

-young face fl

t write a great many letters. I'll be a great deal too busy studying.

about women's education. But I feel somehow that I shall be proud of you. You'll be learned enough, but you'll be a woman with it all. I wouldn't have you stinted for the world, Pri

nd with the moonlight casting its full radiance on her slim figure, looked steadily out over the sea. The cottage was on the top of some high cl

med to get into her anxious eyes and the faint dawn of a new-born hope to tremble around her lips. She thought hersel

she herself slept. The other had now three occupants. Three heads were

l wide awake, Pr

eously, was followed by pr

that small bed!

ie," she said, catching up the eldest of the three girls and giv

half an hour ago, and she undressed very fast, and got into bed, and I hear

et us all have a chat. Here, Katie, if you'll promise not to cry, you may get int

years old; her small face was delicate in its outline, her mouth peevish; she

ece, jumped on the bed according to orders an

ittle voice which she always used, "begin, go

t know what to say. I can't gue

g with Aunt Raby when you are away, Priscilla. She won't let us take long walks, and i

ith all my heart you were not going away,

into sudde

in my lap, darling. I'll wrap you up quite warm in this big shawl. Now, girls," she said, "what is the use of making th

speaking in a broken, half-sobbi

then, after I've gone through my course of study, I'll get a situation of some sort- a good situation- and you three shall come an

of three years could not be diminished, and the three little sisters who wer

ust what she is-

least tiny morsel of a la

d pull along someh

f journal and send it to you. And perhaps there'll be stories and larks in it. Now you really must go to sleep, for I have

es, Pr

attie and Rose lay down side by side and closed th

fore she lay down herself she knelt by the window, looked up at the clear, dark sky in which the moon sailed

w, and she was quite determined that the world should not conquer her, although she knew