Mademoiselle was once my
Governess, but has retired to private life, except in cases of
emergency.
I am naturaly very quick in mind. The Archibalds are all
like that, and when once we decide on a Course we stick to it
through thick and thin. But we do not lie. It is rediculous for
Hannah to say I said the cigarettes were mine. All I said was:
"I suppose you are going to tell the Familey. You'd better
run, or you'll burst."
"Oh, Miss Barbara, Miss Barbara!" she said." And you so
young to be so wild!"
This was unjust, and I am one to resent injustice. I had
returned home with my mind fixed on serious Things, and now I
was being told I was wild.
"If I tell your mother she'll have a fit," Hannah said,
evadently drawn hither and thither by emotion. "Now see here,
Miss Bab, you've just come Home, and there was trouble at your
last vacation that I'm like to remember to my dieing day. You
tell me how those things got there, like a good girl, and I'll
say nothing about them."
I am naturaly sweet in disposition, but to call me a good
girl and remind me of last Xmas holadays was too much.
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