"If she had any strength, she'd be ashamed of her ignorance," retorted Janet."Miss Bridget O'Hara. She aint understood, and she's in punishment, pore dear; shut up in Miss Patience's dull parlor. Mrs. Freeman don't understand her. She aint the sort to be broke in, and if Mrs. Freeman thinks she'll do it, she's fine and mistook. The pore dear is that spirited she'd die afore she'd own herself wrong. Do you think, Miss Collingwood, as she'd touch a morsel of her dinner? No, that she wouldn't! Bite nor sup wouldn't pass her lips, although I tempted her with a lamb chop and them beautiful marrow peas, and asparagus and whipped cream and cherry tart. You can judge for yourself, miss, that a healthy young lady with a good, fine appetite must be bad when she refuses food of that sort!"
"O Janey," exclaimed two of the other girls in a breath, "a committee does sound so absurdly formal."
"I ought not to speak," said Dorothy, turning very red, "but if you are going to be hard on Bridget——""Do try not to make such a fool of yourself," repeated Janet, angrily, in her ear.
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Marshall reappeared with the asparagus and cherry tart.
"I loathe ladylike ways."These remarks usually turned the tables against Janet May, but they also had another effect. She began to be sparing of her sharp, unkind words in Bridget's hearing. This, however, did not prevent her hating the new girl with the most cordial hatred she had ever yet bestowed upon anyone."O Dolly," they exclaimed, running up to their favorite, "she has come—we have seen her! She is very tall, and—and——"
"I hate school," she said. "I want to go back to the Castle. Can I go to-day?"The governess took it without a word, and opening it applied it to Evelyn's nostrils."I am sorry for you also, my dear. I earnestly desire that you should be a good girl, for the girl is the mother of the woman, and a good girl makes that admirable and priceless treasure—a good woman by and by."
"Pardon me for disturbing you," she said; "I did not know anyone was in the schoolroom at present."
"I don't know how I can, Mrs. Freeman. I said at once, when I came to school and saw what kind of place it was, that I wouldn't obey the rules. They were so tiresome and silly; I didn't see the use of them."