Peggy-Alone

eheld Alene Dawson among that madcap crowd, skipping along gaily intent on her play, unobservin

Alene and when her breath came it was too late, the happy crowd had passed from sight around the corner leading to t

nted roofs and tiny windows with wooden ornamentations, that gave warning of the interior, where none of the rooms was of good size or well proportioned. Most of the space on t

parently deep in the mysteries of a French grammar which Vera had seized on hearing the click of the gate announcing Mrs. Ramsey's return, while Hermione busied herself in hiding under the cushio

t books were lies from beginning to end. You couldn't hire

rl mamma must have been,"

play exercises on the pi

rlez vous with a g

tle girl who is studying English, 'Since the bon dieu wrote the Bible in French, it shows

poor to pay for

Pa Ramsey, only I'd hate to be poor-I

. They don't mind it," r

ent, sinking on a lounge, had recovered sufficient

ite straw, with ribbons and flowers galore, whose glories made Alene's headgear appear the more offensive. Sh

n Frederick Dawson mean to allow Alen

mma! Do you mean f

mma means that Lee gi

Bonner girl is awfully bright but so

ey shook

where the president's child is made

t of the scholars are apt to remark and remember it," said Hermio

t possibly afford it, as times are dull; when the children are gro

ad!" Vera stood up, and, using a chair to represent the offen

hat chair. They wouldn't be sat u

ext time unless they were un

one l

toss up her head and give you the 'icy stare'. As for Laura, she wou

ne's uncle. I'm sure her mother would have collapsed had she been in my place to-day! I'm afraid th

and she never came, yet she seems very intimat

ot here to look after her. Some men are queer. Very likely her un

, except that Ivy and Laura are

e classes must be preserved, especially in these times when edu

ione in an aside to Vera. "Don't you

ldren are not in the Dawson set! The idea of wearing tissue-paper hats on the street in broad daylight!" So sayin