[An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw]@TWC D-Link bookAn Unsocial Socialist CHAPTER III 11/45
One--two--" "Go at once and do as you are told, you disagreeable little thing," said Gertrude sharply.
"How dare you be so disobliging ?" "-- nine--ten--eleven--" pursued Agatha. The child quailed, went out, and presently returned, hugging the Recording Angel in her arms. "You are a good little darling--when your better qualities are brought out by a judicious application of moral force," said Agatha, good-humoredly.
"Remind me to save the raisins out of my pudding for you to-morrow.
Now, Jane, you shall see the entry for which the best-hearted girl in the college is to be expelled.
Voila!" The two girls read and were awestruck; Jane opening her mouth and gasping, Gertrude closing hers and looking very serious. "Do you mean to say that you had the dreadful cheek to let the Lady Abbess see that ?" said Jane. "Pooh! she would have forgiven that.
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