fied by Mrs.
Tellingham when she had thought the insurance would fully pay for the work
of reconstruction.
Many girls, it seemed, had already written home begging contributions to
the fund which they expected would be raised for the new building. Some
even were ready to offer money of their very own toward the amount
necessary to start the work.
Even Ruth agreed to this first effort to get money. She pledged a hundred
dollars herself and Nettie Parsons quietly put down the same sum as her
own personal offering.
"Oh, gracious, goodness, me, girls!" gasped Jennie Stone, who had been
figuring desperately upon a sheet of paper. "Wait till I get this sum
done; then I can tell you what I will give. There! Can it be possible?"
"What is it, Jennie?" asked Belle Tingley, looking over her shoulder.
"Why! look at all those figures. Are you weighing the sun or counting the
hairs of the sun-dogs?"
"Don't laugh," begged the plump girl. "This is a serious matter. I've been
figuring up what I should probably have spent for candy from now till June
if I'd been left to my own will."
"What is it, Heavy?" asked somebody. "I wager it would pay for erecting
the new dormitory without the rest of us putting up a cent."
"No," said the plump girl, gravely. "But it figures up to a good round
sum. I never would have believed it! Girls, I'll give fifty dollars."
"Oh, Heavy! you _never_ could eat so much sweets before graduation,"
gasped one.
"I could; but I sha'n't," declared Miss Stone, with continued gravity.
"I'll practise self-denial."
With all the fun and joking, the girls of Briarwood Hall were very much in
earnest. They elected a committee of five--Ruth, Nettie, Lluella, Sarah
Fish and Mary Cox--to have charge of the collection of the fund, and to go
immediately to Mrs. Tellingham and show her what money was already
promised and how much more could be expected within ten days.
There was enough, they knew, to warrant the preceptress in having the work
of tearing away the ruins begu
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Neologizmy Kotkowski Tamara Lepicka Stefan Filipkiewicz Jan Falsyfikat
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.