She says she
and her friends at her institute hated and despised the teachers, and
played all manner of tricks upon them.'
'How foolish the teachers must have been!'
'She did say something about their being low and mean. She did me the
favour to say not like me, and that she was quite shocked to find I
was one of this dreadful race. It was quite amazing to her when I
told her how Robina's dear Miss Lyveson keeps school without
necessity, only to be useful. You may imagine what it is to her to be
plunged all on a sudden into this unhappy class. She began by trying
to take her old place as an officer's daughter, and to consort with
the girls; but I think if she and Carry Price were left to one
another, she would very soon sink as low as any of the poor hounded
teachers she describes.'
'She must be very silly and conceited.'
'No, I think she is sensible, and loving too, at the bottom,' said
Wilmet, 'only every one is strange here. I think she will understand
better soon; and in the meantime she has quite forgiven me for being
a teacher. She clung about me, and called me all sorts of pretty
names--her only friend, and so forth.'
'Perhaps she can forgive you for being a teacher, in consideration of
your being a twin,' said Cherry.
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