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"Nonsense, Evelyn. They disobeyed my most stringent orders. Are they not to be blamed for that?"
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"What is it, my dear?" The head mistress drew herself slightly up, and looked in some surprise at her pupil."Oh, my dear, ought you not to be asleep?" exclaimed Miss Patience in thin, anxious tones from the other end of the board, while Miss Delicia ran up to the girl and took one of her dimpled white hands in hers.[Pg 64]"What?" said Bridget, coloring high. "Do you mean seriously to tell me that I—I am not to pick flowers? I think I must have heard you wrong! Please say it again!"
"I can't help it, my dear; I'm honest, whatever I am."
Ruth clapped her hands.
"And now," she said, turning to her two sisters, "the question of questions is this: what is to be done with Bridget O'Hara? Is she to continue at Mulberry Court after such a daring act of disobedience? Must the safety of the other scholars be sacrificed to her?"
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"I'm very busy, Olive; I wish you'd go away!"