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Dorothy was beginning to whisper to her companion that all their excitement was safe to end in smoke, when the door at the farther end of the dining hall was softly pushed open, and a head of luxuriant nut-brown curling hair was popped in. Two roguish dark blue eyes looked down the long room—they greeted with an eager sort of delighted welcome each fresh girl face, and then the entire person of a tall, showily dressed girl entered.
"Shall I really—how unfortunate; but she doesn't look a bad-tempered woman, and what is there in wishing for fresh eggs? Stale eggs aren't wholesome.""O Janey," exclaimed two of the other girls in a breath, "a committee does sound so absurdly formal."Biddy turned, arrested in her gay flight from rosebush to rosebush.
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"Change my dress! Now I really don't understand you. Am I to come down in my dressing-gown?"
Marshall departed, and Bridget lifted the cover from her plate and looked at the nice hot lamb and green peas.[Pg 54]"How can I possibly tell you, Miss O'Hara?" she replied. "You are a tall girl. Perhaps you are seventeen, although you look more."
CHAPTER IV. THE QUEEN OF THE SCHOOL."The dogs?" asked Dorothy, interested in spite of herself.
"Dolly, I will clap my hands over your rosebud lips[Pg 22] if you utter another word. Come, and let us sit in this deep window-seat and be happy. Would you like to know what papa is doing at the Castle now?"