As usual in such cases, the most audacious and self-possessed were the lucky recipients of the honors.

The reader will imagine that in the present instance Mliss and Clytie were preeminent, and divided public attention; Mliss with her clearness of material perception and self-reliance, Clytie with her placid self-esteem and saintlike correctness of deportment.

The other little ones were timid and blundering.

Mliss's readiness and brilliancy, of course, captivated the greatest number and provoked the greatest applause.

Mliss's antecedents had unconsciously awakened the strongest sympathies of a class whose athletic forms were ranged against the walls, or whose handsome bearded faces looked in at the windows.