Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1916 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI SEVEN LONG YEARS That fall came a crisis in Narsie's affairs. Mother Bernadine had died during the summer, and her successor had different views concerning Narsie, from whom we had a plaintive screed mailed while on a week-end stay with relatives. "Dearest Papa: "Mother Pauline says I am to have a Catechism. She is perfectly horrified because I am not religious in some way, and thinks I must have a bad effect on the School. I hope you will write to her at once on this subject. I should not so much mind a ' Lives of the Saints,' for that is really interesting and exciting; but a Catechism is so dull. I know, for I read one once. "Kiss my darling horse for, "Your beloved little daughter, "Narcissa Randolph Peyton." Miles brought me Narsie's letter, and we smiled over it; but I felt trouble ahead. Miles sent a polite epistle, pointing out the conditions under which Narsie had been entered and complimenting the Convent on her health and conduct. Mother Pauline declined to be placated with soft words and replied, in effect, "Other times, other policies." She suggested that there were doubtless many non-sectarian educational institutions where the indefensible whim of rearing a Godless child might be satisfactorily carried to completion. Miles, in a rage at having Narsie cast back on his hands at the beginning of a school year, answered this ironical communication with one equally polite and equally ironical, enclosing a check for Narsie's expenses and fare home. Narsie, who adored her school, was heartbroken, and offered to study the Catechism if she might only be allowed to remain; but was offered up as a sacrifice,--to the Irreconcilable. Back home without the boys, Narcissa was fearfully lonely. She moped, palely, beneath Aunt Lorena's lady-like at...
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