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Langley School. by the Author of 'the Kings of England'.
Langley School by the Author of 'the Kings of England' Author:Charlotte Mary Yonge General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1850 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XIII. Charlotte's Eight-pence. On the last Friday before Whit-Sunday a great many new frocks and tippets were finished off at school, and neatly packed up in handkerchiefs to be carried home. When the little girls left the school, their tongues went very fast, and Jane Anstey in particular talked so much about her silk bonnet, and the shawl her father had promised her, that Rose Lee was so provoked that she could hardly help telling her it was a shame that people should be so fine who could not pay their debts. At the shop they stopped, for Jane had to go and buy some bread. Her mother had given her the money for it before she left home ; but now, to her great dismay, she could not find it in her bag. She was not neat enough to wear a pocket, so it could not be there ; and in a great fright she ran back to school, hoping that she might have dropped it there. Kate Grey and Jane Long, who had stayed to sweep out the schoolroom, helped her to look ; but she could not find it anywhere, and no one knew any thing about it. The best thing she could have done, after searching in every place, and asking every one, would, of course, have been to have gone straight home and confessed it to her mother: but Jane was too much afraid to do this. What good she did herself by wandering about would be hard to say, since the money was not to be found, and some time or other she must go in and tell about it. It is this sort of cowardly delay that chiefly leads to deceit. It was long past five o'clock, and she had not yet made up her mind to meet her mother, but kept creeping backwards and forwards with her eye...« less