e girls of the East Dormitory held a meeting before breakfast and passed
resolutions requesting Mrs. Tellingham to rearrange their duo and
quartette rooms so that as many as possible of the West Dormitory girls
could be housed with them.
"We're all willing to double up," said Sarah Fish, who had become leader
of the East Dormitory. "I'm perfectly willing to divide my bureau drawers,
book-shelves, table and bed with any of you orphans. Poor things! It must
be awful to be burned out."
"Some of us haven't much to put in bureau drawers or on bookshelves," said
Helen, inclined to be lugubrious. "I--I haven't a decent thing to wear
but what I have on right now. I unpacked my trunk clear to the very bottom
layer."
However, as a rule, selfish considerations did not enter into the girls'
discussion of the fire. When they looked at the ruined building, they saw
mainly the loss to the school. A loyalty is bred in the pupils of such an
institution as Briarwood Hall, which is only less strong than love of home
and country.
A new structure to house a hundred girls would cost a deal of money.
There was no studying done before breakfast the morning after the fire;
and at the tables the girls' tongues ran until Miss Brokaw declared the
room sounded like a great rookery she had once disturbed near an old
English rectory.
"I positively cannot stand it, young ladies," declared the nervous
teacher, who had been up most of the night. "Such continuous chatter is
enough to crack one's eardrums."
The girls really were too excited to be very considerate, although they
did not mean to offend Miss Brokaw. If the window or an outer door was
opened, the very tang of sour smoke on the air set their tongues off again
about the fire.
Once in chapel, however, a rather solemn feeling fell upon them. The
teacher whose turn it was to read, selected a psalm of gratitude that
seemed to breathe just what was in all their hearts. It gave thanks for
deliverance from the terrors of the night and those of the
Notka biograficzna
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain.
John Middleton Murry (August 6, 1889 March 12, 1957) was an English writer. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married, as her second husband, in 1918. Following her death, he edited her work. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, along with the writer Joyce Cary, a lifelong friend.