FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   54   55   56   57   58   59   60   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78  
79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   >>   >|  
-- "Aunt Emma, do they give the girls enough to eat at this school?" Aunt Emma laughed. "Why, of course they do," she answered. "Whatever put that notion into your head, Ruby? The girls have all they can eat of good, wholesome food, and it is just as nice as it is at home." Ruby looked contented, and went on again. "I did n't spose you would go and ask your aunt about what I said," Maude remarked presently in rather annoyed tones. "Now don't tell her one single word about the cake and candy I have in my trunk, or she may tell the other teachers, and they will take it away from me. I know all about what things the teachers will do at boarding-school." "I guess my auntie would n't do anything mean," Ruby answered rather hotly. "Anyway, Maude, perhaps this boarding-school is n't like the one that those girls went to. Aunt Emma said it would be ever so nice here, and she ought to know, for she has lived here ever since I was a little bit of a girl. I was only three years old when she began to teach here." "Perhaps it is nice, and then perhaps again she has got used to it, and don't notice that it is n't pleasant," said Maude. "Anyway, I am ever so glad that you are here, Ruby, for it will be ever so much pleasanter having somebody I know." "Turn the corner now, Ruby," called Aunt Emma, as the little girls came to the corner of a street, and going around the corner they found that they were close to the school. Both the children were sure that it must be the school even before Aunt Emma said,-- "Here we are, girls. Does it not look like a pleasant place?" It did, indeed, look very pleasant, and even Maude, who was disposed to find fault, could not raise any objection to the large, rambling brick house, with wide porches running all around it, shaded with vines, and surrounded on every side by large lawns and a pretty garden. A row of great elms spread their wide branches upon both sides of the street, and just opposite the school stood a pretty church, with its spire reaching up among the trees, and ivy climbing over its stone walls. Several little girls about as large as Ruby and Maude, as well as a few older ones, were amusing themselves upon the lawn, and they all looked very happy. "Well, Maude, this is n't as bad as you thought it was going to be, is it?" asked Maude's mamma. "No," admitted Maude. "It looks nice enough outside, but remember, mamma, if I don't like it I am goi
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   54   55   56   57   58   59   60   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78  
79   80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   >>   >|  



Top keywords:
school
 

corner

 

pleasant

 

Anyway

 

teachers

 
boarding
 
pretty
 

street

 
looked

answered

 

objection

 

garden

 
rambling
 

shaded

 
surrounded
 

running

 
disposed
 
porches

amusing

 

thought

 

remember

 

admitted

 

Several

 

branches

 

opposite

 

spread

 

church


climbing

 

reaching

 

single

 

remarked

 
presently
 

annoyed

 

notion

 

Whatever

 
laughed

contented

 
wholesome
 

things

 
pleasanter
 
notice
 

called

 
children
 
auntie
 

Perhaps