: Turquoise and Ruby by Meade L T - Boarding schools England Juvenile fiction; Girls Social life and customs Juvenile fiction

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ake and conversing in low tones about their mutual grievances.

"Whoever is that?" said Joey, in a tone of some alarm. "Come in!" she called, and Mademoiselle entered.

"Oh--but we dare not disobey Brenda!" exclaimed Nina.

"It is very kind of you, Mademoiselle, to come and see us," said Josie; "but Brenda always sends us to bed when she and Fanchon go out for their fun."

"Do they have great fun at this hour?" asked Mademoiselle.

"Oh, I don't know--I expect so," exclaimed Josie, and she giggled a little.

Mademoiselle uttered a sigh. She opened the window a little wider and left the door ajar.

The children did not know at first what they had especially to tell to Mademoiselle; but that clever woman was not ten minutes in their society before she had obtained a vast lot of useful information from them-- information which she meant to turn to good account. She had her way to make in the world, and could only make it by more or less dishonest means. In short, before she left the little girls on this occasion, she knew that little secret with regard to Nina's account-book, and why Nina was learning this salutary lesson. She pretended to be rather shocked by the little girl's disclosure.

"We would love it beyond anything!" said Joey. "But," said Nina, "we would not dare!"

"Surely you could not manage that?"

This sounded delicious, daring, extremely naughty, and altogether quite impossible to resist, to the little girls.

"You are quite a darling," said Nina. "I only wish you were our governess instead of horrid Brenda!"

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