"Oh, let me look; do let me look!" cried Ruth, while Olive and Janet both pressed eagerly forward.
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Mrs. Freeman went over and drew back the curtains.
"Not for over a month?"With each fresh study Bridget showed the queer[Pg 36] vagaries of a really clever mind run more or less to seed. She did everything in a dramatic, excitable style—she was all on wires, scarcely ever still, laughing one moment, weeping the next; the school had never known such a time as it underwent during the first week of her residence among them.
"If she had any strength, she'd be ashamed of her ignorance," retorted Janet.
It really was too absurd. Janet could not help fidgeting almost audibly.
They were both undressing when she entered the room this evening, but the moment she appeared they rushed to her and began an eager torrent of words.
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"And we are not allowed to go out of the grounds by ourselves," cried several other voices.
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The school stood on the side of a hill, which faced downward to the sea. Its aspect was south, and it was sheltered from the east and west winds by a thick plantation of young trees, which looked green and fresh in the spring, and were beginning already to afford a delightful shade in hot weather.This morning Bridget had been practically "sent to Coventry." Even Dorothy was cold in her manner to her. The small children who had hung upon her words and followed her with delight the evening before, were now too frightened at the consequences of their own daring to come near her. Janet, Ruth, and Olive had shown their disapproval by marked avoidance and covert sneers. Bridget had done a very naughty act, and the school thought it well to show its displeasure.