[Elsie Venner by Oliver Wendell Holmes ,Sr.]@TWC D-Link bookElsie Venner CHAPTER VIII 17/27
What does she come to this school for? She seems to do pretty much as she likes about studying." Miss Darley answered in very low tones.
"It was a fancy of hers to come, and they let her have her way.
I don't know what there is about her, except that she seems to take my life out of me when she looks at me.
I don't like to ask other people about our girls.
She says very little to anybody, and studies, or makes believe to study, almost what she likes. I don't know what she is," (Miss Darley laid her hand, trembling, on the young master's sleeve,) "but I can tell when she is in the room without seeing or hearing her.
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