Vashti's Fate — page 113: what you’re looking at

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> ee - _ Sh * is k oe a ao me : : ‘he <’, ye, 108 DISCUSSION ON BOARDING-SCHOOLS. ‘‘What is the use of all this? Are we to stay at Ever- leigh forever ?” ‘‘Vashti, Vashti!”’ said poor, timid, irresolute Mrs. Everleigh ; ‘‘1—I am sure your aunt will do what is right —certainly she will.” “That is not the point. Are we Miss Margery Gresh- am’s children, or are we yours?” ‘‘T_] wish you wouldn't talk so,” said Mrs. Everleigh. “‘T wish you would wait till to-morrow, dear; don't talk any more about it now, please.” ‘‘Mamma, this matter must be settled to-day—now. If we waited for fifty to-morrows, we should be no better off. Mamma, are we to go or stay?” ‘“My child, I told you I was willing if your aunt was.’ ‘What is it to her ?” Mrs. Everleigh looked distressed, and Miss Gresham, _ taking a step toward her sister, put one hand heavily on her shoulder, saying : ‘‘Eva, be still;”’ and, lifting the other toward Vashti, she said: ‘‘ You scout my authority, but you cannot leave home without my consent. Your mother has clothed me with authority over you, and she has a perfect right to do so. I shall be true to that authority, but I shall not refuse my consent to your carrying out the scheme you have taken into your willful head. If you will go, you will. I shall not put an obstacle in your way beyond my earnest disap- proval; but I will tell you, child, every hour of the day after you leave Everleigh, you will wish you had staid at home. I know your morbid, unhappy temperament. I know what you, with your fierce, ungoverned temper, will suffer among strangers, and those strangers the heartless set schoolgirls are. ‘They will never-bear with you. You will have to be careful how you carry yourself there, People ee Fe Oe les F Wore fo.e? vss ey oe