Fannie Thayer, as she bounced into the library one a

ke such an awful noise! Of course you've left the door op

reading without taking any notice of her communication,

Stevenson, looking up from her book. "

name is-is-Well, I can't remember what it is,-something odd; but she comes

broke in Marion. "Who ever heard of Miss Stiefba

o have come at the beginning of the quarter; but she has been sick, or so

an't come in with us, that's certain,

ever have but two girls in a room. Oh! I know, she

new scholars; they always put on airs, and consider themselves sort

k you would be ashamed to talk so! She may be a very

just upset all our plans; the classes are all arranged, and everything is go

d never lost an opportunity of differing with her, though in a quiet way that was terribly aggravating. "I don't believe

n's reply, and she immediately took up her boo

ar." "Is she pretty?" "Will she be kind to us little girls?" "How old is she?"

I should think that after a while she might be very lively, and a pleasant companion for you all; but at present she is very delicate, as she has just recovered from a very severe illness brought on by her great grief at the death of her father. They were all the world to each other, and she w

ympathy were perfectly sincere; if, indeed, any one could have doubted that kind, loving face. As she ceased speaking, there was a

, not showing the slightest signs o

nd perhaps diffident, among so many strangers, and I want you all to do everything in your power to make it pleasant for h

taking up new friends at a moment's notice, and beco

ecome desperately intimate with her, as you call it, or anything of the kind. I merely w

to the girls in her usual pleasant manner. It was her evident interest i

and a willing helper, whenever they chose to seek her advice

ir books, and clustered round Miss Christine with their fancy-work, or

f.' I keep putting my thread over and over, and, instead of taking off stitches, it makes

oing? You might knit forever and your sleeves would not be 'bound off,

en put over, and knit two and then put over

stitch over, you silly child! I should think you might

st said put over, and how was I going to know by that? I think you'r

lips; then, turning to Julia, she said, "If you had taken more pains with Rose, and tried to exp

for my composition, and I didn't want to be bothered by

d and an incredulous smile, which made Julia wish

"next time you will not have to ask any one to show you how to 'bind off.' Your sleeves are v

blesome sleeves were finished. But she had hardly reached the hall when she came running back, saying, in a most mysteri

ugh they were too well-bred to actually stare at her companion, it

slight; her eyes were very dark; her face intensely pale, but one saw at once it was

ge. Her jet-black hair, which grew very low on her forehead, was brushed loosely back, and gathered into a ro

n her, she appeared frightened and bewildered. Her eyes were cast down, but if any

of her own age. To notice the sudden hush that fell upon all as she came in; to feel that each one was mentally making comments upon her, was almost more than she could bear. If they ha

r. They had been coarse, foolish creatures, making flippant remarks upon all whom they saw, in a rude, unladylike manner, and from whom she had shrunk with a

l, my dear, I am glad to see you down here; I am not going to introduce you to your companions now, you will get

ttention to the view from the windows, the arrangement of the desks, and various other things, until at last she saw her face light

e room for them, remarking as she did so, "It is very chilly; you must

I think I shall. It

th that pretty paper than if it had had dark, horrid walls li

embled as she thought of the one who had always directed her studies; but Florence we

ever been thrown with girls before. I don't believe but what you thought

animated face before her, she thought that if all her future compani

before the fire, with her back to the rest of the room, and Florence beside her talking animatedly, she was surprised to find herself becoming interested

Why should I feel such an unaccountable prejudice against a person I never even heard of before? I thought I had conquered all these old, hateful feelings, and here they are all coming back again. I don't know what is the matter with me. It is not jealousy; for how can I be jealous of a person I never saw or heard of before in m

n's ruffled feelings, and she sat brooding by

hen the tea-bell rang, and hastily sm

el an account of some of their school frolics, though in an undertone, so that Marion could not catch the words, and her companion was listening

mind to go forward, introduce herself, and try by being kind and agreeable to make amends for her former injustice; for although she

most persons to do,-with more grace and loveliness than Marion, if she had been so inclined,

ssible to steel her heart; and she saw one, who, although she was certainly pale enough, seemed to be anything

tly opposite with Florence on her right. Without changing this long-established order of things, Miss Christine could not make room for Rachel by the side of Florence as she would have liked, and the only place for her seemed to be on Marion's left, as there were not so many girls on that side of the table. Hoping that such cl

ainly carried out to the very

pon poor Rachel, that the bright smiles which Florence had called forth were effectually dispelled, and throughou

or her, who had so resolutely made another unhappy, to ask God's blessings on her head, and she remained knee

forgive her, when day after day she

the gas, and went to bed, but not to sleep; far int

and sorrowful though she might be, she could not as yet sufficiently conquer her pride to ask pardon of those

ong and fiercely with herself; she had yet