A Pair of Schoolgirls
By ANGELA BRAZIL
"Angela Brazil has proved her undoubted talent for writing a story of schoolgirls for other schoolgirls to read."--=Bookman.=
My Own Schooldays.
Captain Peggie. Schoolgirl Kitty. The School in the South. Monitress Merle. Loyal to the School. A Fortunate Term. A Popular Schoolgirl. The Princess of the School. A Harum-Scarum Schoolgirl. The Head Girl at the Gables. A Patriotic Schoolgirl. For the School Colours. The Madcap of the School. The Luckiest Girl in the School. The Jolliest Term on Record. The Girls of St. Cyprian's. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth. The New Girl at St. Chad's. For the Sake of the School. The School by the Sea. The Leader of the Lower School. A Pair of Schoolgirls. A Fourth Form Friendship. The Manor House School. The Nicest Girl in the School. The Third Class at Miss Kaye's. The Fortunes of Philippa.
LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, LTD., 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.
[Illustration: "'YOU'RE THE ABSOLUTE IMAGE!' DECLARED ALISON"]
A Pair of Schoolgirls
A Story of School Days
BY
ANGELA BRAZIL
Author of "The New Girl at St. Chad's" "A Fourth Form Friendship" "The Manor House School" &c.
_ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN CAMPBELL_
BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
_Printed in Great Britain by Blackie & Son, Limited, Glasgow_
Contents
CHAP. Page
I. A SCHOOL ELECTION 9
II. WHAT DOROTHY OVERHEARD 24
III. A RETROSPECT 39
IV. DOROTHY MAKES A FRIEND 55
V. A LITERATURE EXERCISE 68
VI. A PROMISE 84
VII. ALISON'S HOME 101
VIII. A SHORT CUT 120
IX. DOROTHY SCORES 132
X. MARTHA REMEMBERS 151
XI. ALISON'S UNCLE 169
XII. THE SUBTERRANEAN CAVERN 181
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Pair of Schoolgirls by Angela Brazil
- 2: A stained glass window in the lecture hall
- 3: Avondale College was a large day school
- 4: Noelle Kennedy relies upon the kindness of the Lower School
- 5: Hockey or games of other sorts
- 6: You'd better not waste any time
- 7: I've a preference for caramels
- 8: But fold the paper and hand it in to Miss Pitman
- 9: She's ever so much cleverer than Val
- 10: Probably everyone in Hurford knows about it except yourself
- 11: Hurford was quite a country place
- 12: She and Aunt Barbara and Martha
- 13: Miss Sherbourne did not at once reply
- 14: Miss Sherbourne closed her eyes
- 15: Seizing Miss Sherbourne almost roughly by the arm
- 16: Said Miss Sherbourne interrogatively
- 17: Miss Sherbourne returned to her own home
- 18: Little Dorothy seems entirely mine
- 19: And turned to Dorothy with an air of relief
- 20: What's wrong with Dorothy Greenfield
- 21: Mavie ran quickly upstairs to the classroom
- 22: They made room for Dorothy and Alison
- 23: Dorothy's going to be Miss Swartz
- 24: And showed you the Avondale ways
- 25: Alison was a pleasant companion at school
- 26: And I said I should ask Miss Pitman
- 27: Even Alison notices how down she is on me
- 28: Alison and Dorothy each seized her own
- 29: Dorothy Greenfield said 'Excellent'
- 30: And lose the galoshes on purpose
- 31: Hope Lawson and Blanche Hall were talking together
- 32: Several people in the pews had turned to look at her
- 33: She noticed two school hats in the distance
- 34: Addie Parker and Bertha Warren exchanged glances
- 35: Interrupted Miss Tempest sharply
- 36: Dorothy shut her pencil box with a slam
- 37: If I weren't going home to Aunt Barbara now
- 38: She had managed to keep Alison pretty much to herself
- 39: And made jokes till Alison almost choked
- 40: Alison dragged Dorothy along the landing
- 41: Dorothy could see that for herself
- 42: Gazing round with interest while Alison wielded the teapot
- 43: Miss Sherbourne that's her aunt at least
- 44: Alison ran upstairs in floods of tears
- 45: But it's a contract between Hurford and Coleminster
- 46: Suppose a gipsy caravan appeared round the next corner
- 47: Was she at last coming to a stile
- 48: And whether the bearer were poacher
- 49: Selfish wretch to make Aunt Barbara look so
- 50: One morning when Dorothy came into the classroom
- 51: Why is Pittie always so hard on Dorothy
- 52: She was obliged to remain in durance vile in the classroom
- 53: Miss Pitman walked to her desk
- 54: Miss Tempest was fearfully stern
- 55: Till one day she caught Dorothy in the dressing room
- 56: Because Beatrice Schenk said so
- 57: Was I wise to send her to Avondale
- 58: For Martha was less patient and forbearing than Aunt Barbara
- 59: Dorothy Greenfield is decidedly taking
- 60: Placing their legs in splints contrived out of hockey sticks
- 61: And caught the two o'clock train to Hurford
- 62: Alison chattered briskly as they walked along the road
- 63: So she hustled Alison into the trap as speedily as possible
- 64: But he's always fearfully busy
- 65: Longton called on Miss Sherbourne
- 66: Longton came to take her downstairs
- 67: Longton he's a bluff old Yorkshireman
- 68: Longton was tired and preferred to stay in the garden
- 69: They don't put up bad lunches at the Hydro
- 70: Everybody goes to Lingham Cave
- 71: The goblins lived in a mountain just like this
- 72: With the rope tied round his waist
- 73: Walking carefully between the stalagmites
- 74: We can't haul her up that chute with a broken ankle
- 75: At last arrived at the Hydropathic
- 76: Dorothy was rarely disagreeable at home
- 77: Perhaps we can copy it in sateen and art muslin
- 78: The subject of the Masque was not mentioned by either
- 79: Dorothy went upstairs uneasy and dissatisfied with herself
- 80: Martha has a head on her shoulders
- 81: Miss Sherbourne made rapid progress
- 82: It's May Day here as well as at Avondale
- 83: I've a distinct grievance against you
- 84: Alison was indeed absolutely happy at Avondale
- 85: We could walk along the embankment to Longacre
- 86: It's rather early for honeysuckle
- 87: He grasped Alison by her dress
- 88: Followed by a group of men carrying Alison
- 89: And Miss Sherbourne opened the front door
- 90: Bringing his motherless baby in charge of an ayah
- 91: And my brother in law and the ayah had started
- 92: Which Alison had heard at school
- 93: I'm utterly against the competitive system
- 94: Dorothy Greenfield is like a hard
- 95: You sent me that catchfly from Hurford
- 96: Where Alderman Herbert was beckoning her