Vashti's Fate — page 110: what you’re looking at

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DISCUSSION ON BOARDING-SCHOOLS. 105 that young lady to the best of her ability. Vashti had taken it into her head to become Miss Dale’s champion— defender of her rights, &c.—and she was exceedingly loth to give up this chivalrous notion. Miss Dale had to shed several crocodile tears, and a few genuine ones, represent- ing in moving terms that it would be the means of getting ‘her turned away from her place, and all that, before Vashti would consent that her dearest friend should continue to suffer from the unrebuked rudeness of Miss Gresham. The truth of the matter was, that Miss Dale had told an unmitigated falsehood. She was a sort of sneaking fire- brand at Everleigh, creating family jars whenever there was the least opportunity for doing so, She it was who put into Vashtis head a notion that Nora was mamma’s favorite, that Margery Gresham was a shameful tyrant, that nobody liked Vashti but she, &c., &c., ad infinitum. ~ he girl, in fact, was completely under her thumb. CHAPTER XIII. DISCUSSION ON BOARDING-SCHOOLS. Miss Gresham was too much occupied watching other folks, to observe Miss Dale very particularly. She disliked her instinctively, and realizing that her educational system was very defective, she took that branch in her own hands, but with all her foresightedness, the governess had quite out-generaled her. Cunning, selfish, deep, and treacherous, she had succeeded in impressing Miss Gresham with the idea that she was shallow, ignorant, and transparent—a creature to be countenanced but not feared. If Miss Dale ——) (elo) comicbooks Se.