The Long Vacation

aw, look how he cla

Labour'

aving promised to send an estimate, a meeting of the Mouse-trap was convened to consider of the materials, and certainly the mass of manusc

of anything entirely impracticable, so she sat with a stern and critical eye a

at the Mouse-trap should collect and print and pu

, only Miss Norton, the oldes

ne think it

Valetta. "Lots

r instance," put

pend the parody,"

are-are horrid

thers I think they are almost a proof of love, that

ie, "there's Dol

do beautifully, being the description of the pink terrac

there?"

he can look the same after

as my father's paper in the Sc

o it won't signify," was t

w would do a history of Rockquay

r ghost and all!

o show what could be done, the volume containing the choicest morceaux of the family magazine of his youth, the Traveller's Joy, in white parchment bindin

stly," said

Mysie, obviously uneasy whil

d be our outside pr

photographs, half-a-c

nd this was accepted with acclamation, but, as Gillian observed, they

Kitty Varley; "the one about Bay

m of Naples, and the lady of the house lighted a lucifer

nly the pronouns," s

wounded, and died at his wife's feet just as the sun gilded the tops of the pines, and she

Here is a story that Bessie ha

course," was t

ne," Gillian added modestly, "ab

there wa

sn't it on the dif

Rockquay should not have

o further future development it may be, but I am afraid th

comparison between Eur

a and everybody to sleep

she had read something very like

," said Emma Norton good-naturedly. "Surely there is that

at is a child

" said Emma, disinterring it, and handing

is Phyllis's account of the Jubilee

he fortune of any

is really delightful and full of fun, but I am quite sure that

te and ask?"

herwood is always gracious

ng to spare us, though I knew he would laugh at the whole concern, and he has

e read

of her lau

d Girton g

the tra

g as an

the kit

crub or po

oric dirt

t may form

ver idl

can't be le

tudies all

ith undau

exam M

sed in stunn

n algebr

teacher of

lever we

England's

nd poor and

Whitehall's

of Jane Taylor's Village Girl, though Mysie was

?" said Anna, beginning gravely t

ighly orthodox, but much given to sentence insubordination to dark cold closets; another as given to severe drill, but neglecting manners; a third as repudiating religious teaching, and now and then preparing explosions for the masters-no, teachers. The various conversations were exceeding

re doubtfully, questioned whether it would "quite do"; and Mysie, when she understood the allusions, thought it would not. Emma Norton was more dec

rder of merit; and Anna thought that the really good would be sufficient; and all the Underwood kith and kin had

plicate ammonites for me and

llian. "He is almost a petrifaction alr

or a few days," said Anna. "She

ry tolerant of them. Essay societies, she said, were out of date,

aid Anna. "Gillian and Dolores

ocieties and Sunday-schools like our little girls at Vale Leston? Why, I asked Gillian, as you call her, what they were

hey are all

f any use if mothers and people are al

't alway

said on her daughter's death at eighty, 'Ah, poor girl, I knew I

un would

out a fidgety ol

t of one of your hospital visits, or of the match-girls, for th

s. Or it would be too clever and incisive for you. Ah! I see it w

-The Girton Girl. Now, Emmie, won't you? You have

one story-about their mocking old Miss Bruce with putting on imitation spectacles-and it has served him for a cheval de b

nk y

nt Cherry are so well, and I could look after Adrian, and go to the Infirmary, and the penitents, and al

shook her head. The one thing she did not wish was to have Emmie riding, walking, singing, and expanding into philanthropy wi

wish this, my d

but Emmie does. Cou

wish to have a fortn

o, auntie

Emmie till the room is wanted; but I had far rath

be good long with her. I had much rather s

y know that I cannot have her after next

ld sleep

oom for her, and her flights when Gerald comes wo

ook herself off. She had visited the Infirmary and the Convalescent Home, and even persuaded Mr