Chipper as a sparrow, she had hopped, and chattered, and darted here and there, until the hour of opening.

Then in the stress of arranging classes and getting started, all her birdlike ways slipped from her.

Stern and bony she stood before us, and with a cold light in her pale eyes, she began business in a manner that made Johnny Hood forget all about his paper wads, and Leon commenced studying like a good boy, and never even tried to have fun with her.

Every one was so surprised you could notice it, except May, and she looked, "I told you so!" even in the back.

She had a way of doing that very thing as I never saw any one else.