"Thank you," said Ruth. "You cannot flatter me into believing that."
"But what's the idea, dear?" demanded Helen, eagerly. "You have some nice
invention, I am sure. You always do have."
"Another base flatterer!" cried Ruth, laughing gaily. "I believe you girls
say such things just to jolly me along, and so that you will not have to
exercise any gray matter yourselves."
"Oh! oh!" groaned Jennie. "How ungrateful."
"Of course you have something to suggest?" Nettie said.
"No, not a thing. My idea is, merely, that we start something that every
girl in the school can have her share in. Of course, that does not cut
out contributions from those who have money to spare; but the new building
must be erected by the efforts of the girls of Briarwood Hall as----"
"As a bunch of briars," chuckled Jennie. "Isn't that a sharp one?"
"Just as sharp as you are, my dear," said Helen.
"You know what that means, Heavy," said Mary Cox. "You're all curves."
"Oh! ouch! I know that hurt me," declared the plump girl, altogether too
good-natured to be offended by anything her mates said to her.
"So that's how it is," Ruth finished "Call the girls together. Put the
idea before them. Let's hear from everybody, and see which girl has the
best thought along this line. We want a way of making money in which
everyone can join."
"I--don't--see," complained Nettie, "how you are going to do it."
"Never mind. Don't worry," said Mercy. "'Great oaks from little acorns
grow,' and a fine idea will sprout from the germ of Ruth's suggestion, I
have no doubt."
It did; but not at all in the way any of them expected. The whole school
was called together after recitations on this afternoon, which was several
days following the fire. The teachers had no part in the assembly, least
of all Mrs. Tellingham.
But the older girls--all of them S.B.'s--were very much in earnest; and
from them the younger pupils, of course, took their cue. The West
Dormitory must be built--and within the time originally speci
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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.