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[Pg 9][Pg 45]Small girls are easily influenced, and Bridget and her tribe rushed down the avenue, shouting and whooping as they went.

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"My dear, you have been ill, which accounts for your nervousness. But in any case a person with the stoutest nerves may be pardoned for fainting if she is flung out of a carriage. I cannot imagine how you escaped as you have done."They were both undressing when she entered the room this evening, but the moment she appeared they rushed to her and began an eager torrent of words.CHAPTER V. BREAKING IN A WILD COLT.

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"She's not learned, I admit," replied Olive, "but weak! no, she's not weak; no weak character could be so audacious, so fearless, so indifferent to her own ignorance."

She scrutinized Olive's face now, a slightly satirical expression hovering round her somewhat thin lips."Yes, Janet, she's pretty and she's rich, and she's destitute of fear. She is quite certain to have her own party in the school. I repeat," continued Olive, "that there is no weakness in Bridget. I grant that she is about the most irritating creature I know, but weak she is not."

There was a sound, a commotion. Several steps were heard; eager voices were raised in expostulation and distress.

Other new girls had arrived, and only the faintest rumors had got out about them beforehand.

"I hate school," she said. "I want to go back to the Castle. Can I go to-day?"