Dorothy Dale and Her Chums by Margaret Penrose

Author:Margaret Penrose [Penrose, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anboco
Published: 2017-02-09T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XIV

DOROTHY TO THE RESCUE

The cloud that had so persistently floated over the head of Miette since the girls of Nita’s clique showed their disapproval of the new pupil, now seemed to have settled down upon her with a strange, sullen gloom.

She attended her classes, recited her lessons, but beyond the mere mechanical duties of school life she took no part in the world of girls about her. Even Dorothy did not feel welcome in Miette’s room. The little French girl wanted to be alone, that was painfully evident.

Neither had she received any letters. This fact struck Mrs. Pangborn as strange, as usually the first week of the new term is marked by an abundance of mail, concerning things forgotten, things too late to go in with the packing, things that thoughtful mothers wished to remind their daughters of lest some important health rule should be laid aside in the school and so on; but to Miette no such message came. The girl had come to Glenwood under rather strange arrangements, as only an aunt who brought with her a line of introduction from a business acquaintance of Mrs. Pangborn came with the new pupil.

But the girl was so eager to enter the school, and appeared so gentle and refined that Mrs. Pangborn accepted the pupil upon the word of this business friend in whom, however, she had unquestionable confidence.

So it happened that the president of Glenwood knew practically nothing of Miette’s home life. This aunt, a Mrs. Huber, had told Mrs. Pangborn of the recent death of Miette’s mother, and also that she had charge of the girl and she wished her to try one term at Glenwood. Her tuition was paid in advance, and so Miette stayed. But Mrs. Pangborn could not help observing that no show of affection passed between the niece and aunt at parting, but this she attributed to a possible foreign conservatism or even to personal peculiarities.

But now Mrs. Pangborn began to wonder—wonder why the child should make such a fuss over dropping a note in the class room. Wonder why no letter came; wonder why Miette refused her confidence, and wonder still why some of the girls had taken an unmistakable dislike to the French girl.

Slow to act, but keen in her system of managing girls, Mrs. Pangborn decided to wait,—at least for a few days longer.

In the meantime school work and school play continued. The tennis court at Glenwood was one of the proud possessions of that institution, and barely had the pupils of the fashionable boarding school assembled each term, before a game would be arranged to test the effect of the very latest possible advantages, in the way of fresh markings, and expert rolling, as the proprietress of the Glenwood School believed in the right sort of outdoor athletics for her pupils, and was always eager to make such exercise as enjoyable as possible.

Tennis in early fall is surely delightful sport, and when Dorothy, Rose-Mary, Edna and Tavia claimed the

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