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She saw their sashes untied, their hair pulled about their ears, their work-bags searched, and their knives and scissors stolen away, and felt no doubt of its being a reciprocal enjoyested no other surprise than that Elinor and Marianne should sit so co

"John is in such spirits today!" said she, on his taking Miss Steeles's pocket handkerchief, and throwing it out of --"He is full of monkey tricks"

And soon afterwards, on the second boy's violently pinching one of the saers, she fondly observed, "How playful William is!"

"And here isa little girl of three years old, who had not entle and quiet--Never was there such a quiet little thing!"

But unfortunately in bestowing these ehtly scratching the child's neck, produced froentleness such violent screams, as could hardly be outdone by any creature professedly noisy The mother's consternation was excessive; but it could not surpass the alar was done by all three, in so critical an ee the agonies of the little sufferer She was seated in her mother's lap, covered with kisses, her wound bathed with lavender-water, by one of the Miss Steeles, as on her knees to attend her, and her ar plums by the other With such a reward for her tears, the child was too wise to cease crying She still screa to touch her, and all their united soothings were ineffectual till Lady Middleton luckily re that in a scene of similar distress last week, some apricot marmalade had been successfully applied for a bruised teerly proposed for this unfortunate scratch, and a slight interave them reason to hope that it would not be rejected-- She was carried out of the room therefore in her mother's arms, in quest of this h earnestly entreated by theirladies were left in a quietness which the room had not known for many hours

"Poor little creatures!" said Miss Steele, as soon as they were gone