Princess Sarah and Other Stories

rked, as they went. "We don't like her, not any of us. She's so mean; always telling tales about s

Sarah asked, feelin

tell you about her?" ejaculat

ver told me ab

self don't think much of her!

!" Sarah crie

g her cousin into the midst of a noisy crew, all squabbling round a tea-table. "M

perhaps Mrs. Stubbs didn't s

," put in S

is Sarah?" Mis

ing, under her breath to Joh

made her unruly young pupils dislike her. "I hope we shall be very good friend

away, but she replied, politel

" said May, with a very con

nd; without May I could not endure all the worry and tri

to do likewise, to the infinite amusement of the younger ones, of whom May took

read-and-butter that Sarah's heart stood still for fear of his choking,

without giving Sarah time to reply. "You grow

and ramming it down his throat until even bo

uthoritatively. "If I see you do that aga

hold her own over Tom when he was at home for his holidays. Not going down to dessert meant, not only the punishment of losing

promptly into discreet behaviour, and Mis

at jam for a week," she burst ou

took the opportunity of daubing a thick slice of bread-and-butter with jam off her own plate, and smuggling it into the luckless Johnnie's hand in su

ther lost, began vigorously nudging Flossie, who sat next to him, with his elbow. Flossie, unfortunately, was in the act of raising a large cup of very

r against Flossie; Janey appealed to Miss Clark to remember that at the very moment she was handing her cup in the opposite direction; and Miss Clark began to wring her hands and exclaim that she would ask to have Tom sent back to school

red; and May calmly surveyed the s

Tom. "You get more vulgar every day. Don't take any

s Clark began

I to bear four weeks more of t

ake no notice,

still, May dear. As for Sarah, she is a good girl, a pattern to you," with a withering glanc

ntly that Miss Clark had been please

oo good for her to have been brought up among th

darkly at Tom the while, just by way of reminding him that she had not by any means forgotten. But Tom was unconscious of her wrath--a fresh idea had

at his cousin. "Her Royal Highness Prin

he taunt, and waving his bread-and-butter li