A Patriotic Schoolgirl

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p, a kitchen for cooking-classes, a special block for music and practising-rooms, and a large assembly hall. Outside there were many acres of lawns and playing-fields, a large vegetable garden, and a little wood with a stream running through it. The girls

ollowing that they had an opportunity of meeting and comparing notes. To both life had seemed a breathless and confusing whirl of classes, meals, and calisthenic exercises, with a

g Dona by the arm. "It looks quiet, and we can sit down an

under a larch tree and s

, I never expected to like it.

ld just s

t be as ba

re worse. But go on a

s trimmed with real lace. She twists her hair in Hinde's wavers every night, and keeps a pot of complexion cream on her dressing-table. She always uses stephanotis scent that she gets from one special plac

. She's nicer than Irene Andrews, though; we had a squabble last night over the window. Betty Moore brought a whole box of chocolates with her, and she ate th

h she's not so bad otherwise. Beatrice Elliot is detestable. She found that little Teddy bear I brought with me, and she sniggered and asked if I ca

girls always grouse. Miss Broadway's sent me to hunt you up and do the honours

particularly merry blue eyes and a whimsical expression. H

s very much," returned M

be personally conducted by an old one and told the traditions of the place. It's a sort of initiation, you know. We've a

heir dresses, and followed their cicerone, who seemed determined to

unior may pop her impertinent nose inside, or so much as go and peep through the windows without getting into trouble. They've carpets on the stairs instead of linoleum, and they may make cocoa in their bedrooms and fill their own hot-water bags, and

astonished, as she made the required

their heads. It's a strict point of school etiquette. You m

y other rules

they're limited to brooches. I advise you to strip those trinkets off at onc

lasping her locket, with Father

e been made by the Seniors, and Juniors have got to put up with them and keep civil tongues in their heads. If you want to get on you'll have

ly. "She's not been to school before," she explained

ded sympat

giving her all these tips, so that she won't make mistakes and begin wrong. She'll get on all righ

Head of St

n, worse lu

one who met us in

e s

hall never get on

You'll have to mind your p's and q's. She can be decent

me-I could see it i

be in Norty's bad books. If you missed your train and kept

the He

y see her on the platform. We call her 'The Empress', because she's so like the pictures of the Empress Eugénie, and she's so dignified and above

mebody. She hoped Mollie would not desert her and sit among her own chums (the girls took any places they liked for tea); but no, her new comrade led the way to a table at the lower end of the hall, and, motioni

ripply hair is Miss Duckworth. She's rather sweet, isn't she? We call her Ducky for short. The other's Miss Carter,

esult that a stream of tea emptied itself over the clean table-cloth. Miss Norton, who was just passing to he

u are to report yourse

ed. Miss Duckworth made no remark, but the girls in her vicinity

The Acid Drop's going to treat you to s

a, I suppose,"

ppen at her table. You wouldn't have to report

n't know." Marjorie

! Wait till you've had five minutes with the

a very unpleasant fashion as she tapped at the door of Miss Norton's study. The teacher

Are you aware that you have broken one of the strictest rules of the school? You may borrow books from the library, but

nly read a few pages of it and had completely forgotten its existence. She remembered now that among the rules sent by the Head Mistress, and read to her by her mother, the

is is a first offence I'll allow it to pass, but girls have been expelled from this sch

to co