Brenda's Cousin at Radcliffe: A Story for Girls

d of Maggie McSorley, Brenda in riding costume opened the front door. As she stood on the top

r in long pig-tails. As she looked at them, by one of those swift flights of thought that so often carry us unexpectedly back to the past Brenda was reminded of another bright autum

than those girls across the street, and Julia, who had come and con

nd when one of the girls shouted, "We know whom

oofs on the asphalt pavement. Brenda, shading

ply, as a young man, flinging his reins to the gro

As a matter of fact, I'm five minutes ahead of time. But I'd have been

two young people mounted their horses,

ed one of the girls, as t

to you!" c

n I look at those Sellers girls. Why, they are almost in long d

ook out!" for they were turning a corner, and two or three bicyclists came suddenly upon them. Brenda a

d there were clumps of asters and other late flowers. They rode on in si

nt, fair sis

as only

not speak. I trust that

hat I was not doing. In fact I was thinking of

time, mention it not

lthough her sister had married Arthur's brother, her engagement to Arthur, announced in Jun

of my life certainly did pass before I had an idea that you were in the world. I w

us of

her when I began to

you jealous if yo

altogether jealousy. You see I didn't lik

and she have always seemed to hit it

d I've always been ashamed of that first y

first winter in Boston; and she did not spare herself, when she told

a from the first. Then what a brick Julia was when she made up that sum of

things before, he enjoyed hearing Brenda narrat

en she was at Radcliffe, and I'm fearfully disappoi

ge, is she? I certainly saw her

'm sure that I wrote you about the schoo

r things in the letter. But has she los

ve that you skip

sink more deeply in my mind than others. Has Jul

s Miss South's scheme. You see she has that great Du Launy house on her hands,

nd of a

hat's it; to teach girls how

term or two, Brenda? That kind of knowle

her. On they went through the Arboretum, and around Franklin Park, then over the Boulevard toward Mattapan and Milt

able Brenda called after him, "I may take your

," respond

she was deeply interested and extremely anxious to see what changes had been made in the Du Launy

ad a prospect of carrying out her plans. Many persons thought it a fine thing for her when she was a

regret. Kind though her grandmother was, she had sacrificed more than any one realized in becoming the constant co

gh money left to permit her to keep up the great house in the style in which her grandmother had lived; for out of it small incomes were to be paid during their lives to three old servants, and after their deaths this money was to go to Lydia South's bro

," said some one; "aside from the expense it would be alt

t to advantage. The neighborhood was not what it had once been. Almost all the older residents had moved away; two families or more were the rule in most of the houses in the street, and not so very far away were several unmistakable tenement-houses. Miss Crawdon's school

work among those interesting foreigners. But there is more than one settlem

epting those who were to live in the Mansion, had been permitted to see it. Nora and Edith and Brenda had

ing looked the same as on that morning when the mischievous girls had ventured to pass under the porte-cochère to apologize for breaking a window with their ball. It was the same exterior, and yet not the same. It had, as Brenda said, "a wide-awake look,

ngelina opened the front door, beaming with satisfaction at the dignity to which she had risen. Indeed s

er's got two boarders, young women that work in the factory and don't make much trouble for her. So you see I'm not so much needed at h

ng hall to greet them, and then there was a confusion of sounds, as Nora and Brend

"this is the same room where I first saw Madame Du Launy, t

her that brought about the reconciliation, as they'd say in a novel," responded Nora gayly. "I'm glad that yo

are many things here that I had in my room at Cambridge," and she pointed to a Turner

hall, Brenda and Nora both exclaimed in wonder. Two drawing-rooms, formerly connected by folding-doo

e," cried Brenda, pirouetti

replied Julia

t lectures and classical concerts, and

" again res

re's that very water color that Madame Du Launy wanted to buy at the Bazaar. To think that it should come to her house after all! And there's

look like you,-Ruskin, and Longfellow, and Greene's 'Shorter History;' surely you don't expect girls like these to read s

. The best bindings are her books. Many of them had never been read by any one, I am sure; and as to the covers, we shall see that they are not ill-treated. We have a theory t

rain them up to liking this Tanagra figurine, and the Winged Victory, and a

ne of these pretty things to the floor. That bit of Tiffany glass, for instance

Brenda, Maggie has c

not r

ere the day after you saw her, and I explained our plans, and what we should expect from every girl who entered. She promised that Maggie should stay the two years, and showed a canny Scotc

does Magg

ief state of mind. We are going to try to help her

ble on which lay many attractive books and periodicals. "I

s this is one of our most attractive r

of a broad sunny room in the new ell, to which they had descended a few steps from the main house.

why, it isn't at a

tried to make it as pleasant as any room in

sink stood on four iron legs with a clear, open space beneath it; there were no wooden closets under it to harbor musty cloths and half-cleaned kettles, and serve as a breeding place for all kinds of microbes. A shelf beside the sink was so sloped that dishes placed there would quickly drain off before drying. The wall above the sink was of blue

and what a curious wire

that outsiders cannot look into the room it does not obscure the light. The

jars and tins and little boxes, all neatly labelled and within easy reach. On the wall were several charts-one showing the different cuts of beef and lamb, another by figures and diagrams givin

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