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Is n't that gay?" said one lively damsel, who had just
come in.
"I should think they 'd better go. My mamma says, if I 'd been
going to that school, she 'd have taken me straight away," answered
another girl, with an important air.
"Carrie ran away with an Italian music-teacher, and it got into the
papers, and made a great stir," explained the first speaker to Polly,
who looked mystified.
"How dreadful!" cried Polly.
"I think it was fun. She was only sixteen, and he was perfectly
splendid; and she has plenty of money, and every one talked about
it; and when she went anywhere, people looked, you know, and
she liked it; but her papa is an old poke, so he 's sent them all
away. It 's too bad, for she was the jolliest thing I ever knew."
Polly had nothing to say to lively Miss Belle; but Fanny observed,
"I like to read about such things; but it 's so inconvenient to have it
happen right here, because it makes it harder for us. I wish you
could have heard my papa go on.


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