The Girls at Mount Morris

open. Louie Howe gave a light tap and marc

quite sure you could mend it. You see I'm going to a sort of musicale in about an hour and

e done worse though, and part of it will be under

pools and took up sev

e," and she gave a s

hair. Was she going to

d she doesn't care to take any scholars only from the best families. I do wonder how that Nevins girl slipped in? Her father is a first-class banker, I have understood. They have

been ill and seems very indulgent," answered Lilia

Bragging, we call it. Do you

would know," was

common blood back of her somewhere. Money doesn't give you the prestige of go

ith the world to judge," answered L

a good many newly rich, and

ing out the rent and basting

d asking Mrs. Dane if ther

a favor. Lilian was on her knees straightening and dusting the

girl on the floor whose business was to wait on her mother. When she was clear

endid!" she cried, her

ant-either of y

e some girls that are real friendly. There are two girls going to college next year. They have money, too, and they think a degree a great thing, and know of girls who have taught awhile and then taken a year or two and taught again. I was reading such a fine book-this

't fall on it. Oh, wouldn't the child be better off without her? She was so

. Boyd. "Wouldn't she and Miss Lilian walk home with the Trenhams from church tomorrow morning and dine and me

claimed. "Mother you must rest this aftern

as if I did not really earn my sala

es. I am proud of being a good scholar, but I study with all my mi

e a June day. Miss Benson had come to church, a bright rather pretty woman of five or six and twenty. Her voic

ached houses with gardens running back to the next street and a space of six feet or so

th Trenham. "The woman professes to be a clairvoyant, and there are five

diate pleasure as well as heat. In a small wheeling chair sat the invalid, a pale li

h color. Oh, if you could have seen our roses in June! They were bewildering. Don't you feel that gorgeous things sometimes are? Then the next door boys came over and sto

, stooping to kiss her. She was very pale and the dark hair

e took possession of Lilian again, and wan

are most all young

what do they do beside study? They w

rooms and had calisthenics and danced, and went th

nterrupted. "Do they make

e lovely music by striking some sweet-toned bells with small wands, and

dance? You l

good deal of my time with my moth

ings like other children. I draw and I paint over pictures, and I have an autoharp, and a bea

rning, the real cooking having been done the day before. Claire was lifted out in a cushioned chair a

backward girls, and trimmed hats, as she had a genius for millinery. Then, in vacation she had been a sort of summer governess when parents wanted to ta

eve I want to be a doctor, I thin

makes excellent teachers, as well, and you do have many

ve twenty boarders and there

t enough to give you some variety. You

n col

was entertain

runaway horse when she was barely five and very seriously injured so that for two years she was entirely helpless and

so much character. Well, I have Edith who has always been a great comfort, and I suppose one gets used

it as well. Wasn't it rather monotonous for her at Mrs. Barrington's? At Laconia there had been neighbors dropping in, some who had

amma and Edith might go out together. An old lady does come in when they go to church, but she isn't a

ambitious girl and hoped to keep in touch with her for sometime;

tful," she said when the

fice when she found she could not go on with school, and lo, this had been the outcome. They were delightfully sheltered, there were no hardships, only pin pricks and she wo

n it and she wondered if at any time or in any place

eemed to ray off sunshine with every movement of the head that had a bird-like poise; a low broad Clytie brow and eyes that were the loveliest violet color, sometimes blue, sometimes the t

nnected with Zaidee's birth had been the great sorrow of their lives that had cost Mrs. Crawford years of excruciating suffering and at first it seemed hopeless invalidism. In one of the Indian skirmishes the Major had been severely wounded in the leg that had left it lame and rather stiff. He resigned from the army to devote himself to his wife and the old residence that had been in his family for generations. And at this period a rel

s. Crawford as a girl, had been educated by Mrs. Barrington, then a young and childless widow, with an ardent desire for some useful a

s think that I would much rather have you as you are than to have lost you in th

much joy stil

nd, but her brother had been coaching her. There were four new scholars in the Latin class. The Kirklands, Louie Howe, who had

bronzy gold hair? And isn't she

old friends. Louie Howe laugh

g a little she glan

We are democratic this ye

caret

her daughter you see, and the daughter is to be a teacher-is a sort of charity scholar, looks after the laggar

e resemblance to somebody, Zay, it really is you. Her hair and eyes

t! Oh the idea! A girl from-well some

ends and she confessed to adoring Zaide

in her eyes, and I dare say her iron rule is what makes her mother so meek. She pets up that Nevins

ngton put her on a diet, her complexion was so horrid, but she manages to get a lot of sweets and chocolates. And the way she dresses! A modiste in New York send

ever brushes it. At home the maid looked after her. The m

wouldn't let her wear only that diamond birthday ring at school. She was wildly in love with Miss Boyd but the girl was too hard hearted to return it. She is a regular icicle and stony hearted and all that! Yes, her heart is irretrievably gone

aks well for Miss B

she had been the rec

unger minds in the paths of knowledge

be despised?" aske

hey have to fill in life. If it wasn't for the mother she might pass muster, and you know this is the most select of schools. That is one reas

ghwater mark?" and there was a

Berlin and that picturesque Dresden. Did you see the shepherdesses with their crooks, and Coryd

id you see

h the Ambassador and was presented to the Kaiser who asked him about Annapolis, and some of the training. He thought the great Emperor very affable.

didn't go

n crutches! And she thinks in two years or so we may go to Paris for quite a stay. You know real young girls don't understand fine pictures and all that! Willard begins his three-years cruise early in January, and

o be envied! None but the rich, etc.,

g tour. Otherwise I won't have him!" announced Phil

it is time to go out for e

two parlors are to be thrown into one-a regular drawing room, and I'm to have the pret

all hel

e it so, but it is the one idea o

color," said Louie. "And she'