d the whole school had burned down and then she would
not have had to stay at Briarwood another day!
Ruth and Helen one day rescued the girl from the midst of a mob of larger
girls who were driving Amy Gregg almost mad by taunting her with being a
"fire bug."
"What are you wild animals doing?" demanded Helen, who was much sharper
with the evil doers among the under classes than was Ruth. "So she's a
'fire-bug?' Oh, girls! what better are you than poor little Gregg, I'd
like to know? Every soul of you has done worse things than she has
done--only your acts did not have such appalling results. Behave
yourselves!"
Ruth could not have talked that way to the girls; but many of them slunk
away under Helen's reprimand. Ruth took the crying Amy away--but neither
she nor Helen was thanked.
"I wish you girls would mind your own business and let me alone," sobbed
the foolish child, hysterically. "I can fight my own battles, I'll tear
their hair out! I'll scratch their faces for them!"
"Oh, dear me, Amy!" sighed Ruth. "Do you think that would be any real
satisfaction to you? Would it change things for the better, or in the
least?"
What made the girls so unfeeling toward Amy was the fact that from the
beginning she had expressed no sorrow over the destruction of the
dormitory, and that she had refused to write home to ask for a
contribution to the fund being raised for the new building.
When every other girl at Briarwood Hall was doing her best to get money to
help Mrs. Tellingham, Amy Gregg's callousness regarding the fire and its
results showed up, said Jennie, "just like a stubbed toe on a bare-footed
boy!"
Really, Ruth began to think she would have to act as guard for Amy Gregg
to and from the school. The girl was not allowed to play with the other
girls of her age. Wherever she went a small riot started.
It had become general knowledge that Amy Gregg's father was a wealthy man,
and that the family lived very sumptuously. Amy had a stepmother and
several half brothers and
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.