Vashti's Fate — page 118: what you’re looking at

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7 LAUREL HILL—TROUBLE. 113 were large and commodious, fronting on and inclosing three sides of a square court. The Everleigh coach wound slowly up a handsome car- riage road to the seminary.. They had been two days and a night on the way, and the travelers, weary and hungry, were glad to arrive at their destination. They were ushered immediately into a sitting-room, com- mon as it seemed to the pupils, for groups of girls were standing or sitting about chatting in a subdued manner, for schoolgirls, owing probably to the presence of a teacher, who now and then touched a smal] bell at her elbow when the buzz of voices rose above a certain limit. She herself seemed to be reading, and did not notice the advent of the travelers. The various chatty groups subsided into a lower hum as Miss Gresham, after a rapid glance about the room with her usual straightforward manner, proceeded to the fire, un- asked, since no one invited her, and took possession of a chair for herself and one for Vashti, who, her.cheeks burn- ing with confused blushes, could not do otherwise than follow her aunt. | Schoolgirls as a mass are sometimes very rude. Noone jogged the teacher, who sat some distance from the fire, and was still unconscious of the arrival of strangers. Some stood in rather uncomfortable proximity to the new-comers, whispering, making remarks that did not entirely fall short of ears for which they were not intended. Vashti felt her ears tingle under her hood at an allusion to Mother Bunch and Noah’s Ark, which evidently was in- tended to apply either to herself or her aunt. Miss Gresham heard the remarks also, and gave Vashti a keen, sarcastically-triumphant glance, and she said, in a low tone; | l a \ é . | Eomicbooks - ~ ad - ada : . . o : 7 d ~s rp ot PG Les : — = * 2 5 f f ris = wy he Se eee Se Ea an] = . ; r PF > + ~ = ; "1 < £ o : 7 ad © a eS Fe : ae fe ee xT Pe > + ‘fo me ee CFE A . . . * ry . ' <3 %, : +e 2 : A “ = : a - ~ <4 es Pn a ? ue Pan a i s “y J, — _ Te Se be) Ic. s —er ¥ cxgt® ee a a 2 ee ee a or a —: am, ‘en 2% - cae ‘ 7 bea ae | 4 ; no “ae by Sf te ek et = 4 - Sany 4 - hs eS Oe ee ie Te - I~ Po . Yat willy sete or Ma é " ae ee a > Sea a oe ee a be a 2 ‘ " ee te = — Tn pe TES ™ an Te EPO ee gS wree Bee a a ~~ As “s ! : = at a ; a > ae . a - ba é . . tye. * ie - pA pip fae beer tee ; ee Ora) Bf ee eel Krys