Volume I Part 16 (1/2)
I was very glad; for I abjured those braided gare, with utter satisfaction Still, I was aht I
FOOTNOTE:
[10] Music and Medicine
CHAPTER XVIII
The next day at class, Laura's place still being e in at the door, and I, knowing their faces, could not but feel how unlike she was to theht in her dark dress, with her cloudless forehead and air of ecstatic innocence She spoke to me to-day
”How are you?”
”Quite well; and you, Miss Benette? But I want you to listen toto say”
”I'll wait,” and she took her seat
Davy extolled our anthem, and did not stop us once, which fact was unprecedented We all applauded _hihed, but was evidently much pleased In fact, he had already onistic jealousy of the resident professors could not cope therewith, without being worsted; they had given him up, and now let him alone,--thus his sensitive nature was less attacked, and his energy had livelier play
When the class divided, Miss Benette looked round at ave her e She eet and calrateful to yourladies your sisters; but I never do go anywhere out to tea”
”But, Miss Benette, you are going to that party at the Redferns'”
”I a there,--that is different It is very hard to me not to come, but Ibut study until I coht lose theht not like to know me”
”Miss Benette!”--I stamped my foot--”how dare you say so? We should always be proud to know you”
”I cannot tell that,” she retorted; ”it ht not
Perhaps you will think I aht one day I should like to have coly But I was inwardly hurt, and I daresay she thought ood-evening like a ”young gentleman,” as she had calledthe nextconversation I saw she was very anxious to disabuse me of the belief that I must necessarily be what, in hed her quite to scorn
”But, Charles,” she remonstrated, ”if this is to be, you must be educated with a direct view to those purposes”
”So I shall be; but when she said medicine she did not hed the ht to profess But in that case you will require high as well as profound instruction”
”I o to Germany and learn all about it”
”My dear boy!”
”Yes, I do, and I know I shall; but as I have not chosen hed heartily at this ”Would you like to learn the horn, Charles? or the flute? or perhaps that new instrument, the ophicleide?” And so the subject dwindled into a joke for that while I then told her in strict confidence about Laura I scarcely ever saw her so ht Clara herself angelic, and to th promised to call with me upon her, if I would ascertain that it would be convenient I shall never forget, too, that Millicent begged for me from my mother some baked apples, some delicate spiced jelly, and soes, for Laura I do think esse_ a the populace I carried these treasures in a sh to receive her assurance that she should be so pleased if my sister would come and look at her work