. Emmy Lou : her book & heart . ow, she did not take the re-proach in Miss Amanda*s voice to heart;Miss Amanda was given to saying reproach-fully, Please, p-ple-e-ase,—young /^dies,many times a day, but after a brief pause onereturned to pleasant converse with a neigh-bour. Jokes were told about Miss Amanda amongthe girls, and, gathering at recess about herdesk, her pupils would banter Miss Amandaas to who was her favourite, whereupon, she,pleased and flattered, would make long anddetailed refutation of any show of partiality. Miss Amanda pinned a bow in her hair,and wore a chain, and rings, a
. Emmy Lou : her book & heart . ow, she did not take the re-proach in Miss Amanda*s voice to heart;Miss Amanda was given to saying reproach-fully, Please, p-ple-e-ase,—young /^dies,many times a day, but after a brief pause onereturned to pleasant converse with a neigh-bour. Jokes were told about Miss Amanda amongthe girls, and, gathering at recess about herdesk, her pupils would banter Miss Amandaas to who was her favourite, whereupon, she,pleased and flattered, would make long anddetailed refutation of any show of partiality. Miss Amanda pinned a bow in her hair,and wore a chain, and rings, and was given tofrequent patting and pushing of her hair intoshape; was it possible Miss Amanda felt her-self to be—-pretty ? Ordinarily, however, Emily Louise did notthink much about her one way or another,except at those times when Miss Amanda triedto be funny ; then she quite hated her withunreasoning fierceness. Right now Miss Amanda was desiring EmilyLouise MacLauren to give attention.[ 200 ] THE CONFINES OF CONSISTENCY. ** Miss Ama7iday pleased a?id fiatteredy would make longy de-tailed refutation of a?iy show of partiality.^ ^ Once a week there was public recitation inthe Chapel. Mr. Page considered it good forboys and girls to work together, which was anew way of regarding it peculiar to grammar EMMY LOU school, for hitherto, boys, like the skull andcross-bones bottles in Aunt Cordelias closet,had been things to be avoided. To-morrow, Miss Amanda was explain-ing, the chapel recitation will be In grammar;you will conjugate, Miss Amanda simpered,
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