"Only the head girl of the school," remarked Dolly in a soft tone. "But of course a person of not the smallest consequence. Well, Janet, what next?"Bridget O'Hara's clear blue eyes were opened a little, wider apart."Come, my dears," said Miss Patience to the girls[Pg 29] near her, "let us lose no more valuable time. Please don't scrape your chair in that atrocious way, Alice. Rose, what a poke! Susie, hold back your shoulders. Now, young ladies, come to the schoolroom quietly; quietly, if you please."
Bridget's excitable eager words were broken by sobs; tears poured out of her lovely eyes, her hands clasped Dorothy's with fervor.
"I hope not, Bridget."
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"Bridget, you are incorrigible. If kindness won't make you see that you are bound in honor to obey me, I must try punishment. Wretched child, I don't wish to be hard to you, but do what I say, you must!""I could not help myself," replied Dorothy. "You know, of course, Janet, what Bridget did last night?"When the servant answered her summons, she desired her to ask Miss O'Hara to come to her immediately.
The governess took it without a word, and opening it applied it to Evelyn's nostrils."Command me?" said Bridget, her nostrils dilating.
Dorothy suppressed a faint sigh, took her companion's plump hand, and continued the tour of investigation.
"Well, well," interrupted Janet impatiently, "have your own way, Olive. Make that tiresome, disagreeable girl a female Hercules if you fancy, only cease to talk about her. That is all I have to beg."