"Hurrah! Hurrah! Supper!" she cried. "Your committee must keep, Janet. Now for the satisfaction of rampant, raging curiosity. Dolly, will you race me to the house?""Yes, Marshall," said Dorothy; she stopped. Janet stopped also, and gave Marshall a freezing glance.
"Pardon me for disturbing you," she said; "I did not know anyone was in the schoolroom at present."
[Pg 61]"Yes, you ought. I'm going to give you a lovely description. Papa has had his dinner, and he's pacing up and down on the walk which hangs over the lake. He is smoking a meerschaum pipe, and the dogs are with him.""Bridget, my dear, before you come into the schoolroom I must request that you go upstairs and change your dress."
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"Well, if I must go, and if you really wish it. Come with me to my room, Dorothy. O Dolly, if you would sleep with me to-night!"
She looked at her friend with a cool, critical eye."Yes; does not a mistress always command her pupils?"
"Now, Marshall, what is it? How fussy and important you look!"
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"Are you going to be cross when you find I don't know your sort of things?"