"But you look queer. Are you frightened about anything?"Olive had no inclination to join them. They had taken no notice of her, and she was not sufficiently fascinated by Bridget to run any risk for her sake. She knew that her present proceedings were wrong, but she was not at all brave enough to raise her voice in protest. She walked slowly back to the house, wondering whether she should go and tell Janet, or sink down lazily on a cozy seat and go on with a story book which was sticking out of her pocket.
"Here you are," exclaimed the two pairs of lips eagerly.
It is not an easy matter to break in a wild colt, and this was the process which had now to take place with regard to the new girl, whose eccentricities and daring, whose curious mixture of ignorance and knowledge, of affectionate sympathy and careless levity, made her at once the adored and detested of her companions.
When the servant answered her summons, she desired her to ask Miss O'Hara to come to her immediately.
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Bridget stood and watched her. Olive kept a little apart, and the smaller girls clustered close together, watching their new friend's face with interest and admiration.
Ruth clapped her hands.In consequence she was popular, with that mild sort of popularity which is bestowed upon the people who are all patience and have no faculty for inspiring fear."What is that?"
[Pg 53]Evelyn gave a very faint sigh, and turning her head looked out of the window."And we are not allowed to go out of the grounds by ourselves," cried several other voices.
The girls entered the wide, long dining hall and immediately took their places at the table.
She stepped out of the open window, and walked rapidly across the wide gravel sweep.