She was in such a state that almost any slight agitation would have brought on the attack, and it was the accident of her transient excitability, very probably, which made a trifling cause the seeming occasion of so much disturbance.

The theme was signed, in the same peculiar, sharp, slender hand, E.Venner, and was, of course, written by that wild-looking girl who had excited the master's curiosity and prompted his question, as before mentioned.
The next morning the lady-teacher looked pale and wearied, naturally enough, but she was in her place at the usual hour, and Master Langdon in his own.
The girls had not yet entered the school room.
"You have been ill, I am afraid," said Mr.Bernard.
"I was not well yesterday," she, answered.

"I had a worry and a kind of fright.

It is so dreadful to have the charge of all these young souls and bodies.

Every young girl ought to walk locked close, arm in arm, between two guardian angels.