[Grace Harlowe’s Plebe Year at High School by Jessie Graham Flower]@TWC D-Link bookGrace Harlowe’s Plebe Year at High School CHAPTER V 5/13
Don't you think I could leave at a side entrance? I don't want to see the person who is waiting for me in front." "Of course, child," spoke up Grace.
"We'll see you home ourselves.
Won't we, girls!" "Wait until I lock up my motor cycle and I'll go along," called David. "We'll all protect Miss Anne." "Tell him," said Anne to the boy, putting the note back in the envelope and giving it to him, "that what he asks is impossible." "Couldn't you squeeze us into the carriage, mother ?" asked David, returning presently with his hat. "I have invited Miss Leece to drive home with us, mother," interrupted Miriam, giving her brother a blighting glance.
"There is room for only one more person.
Perhaps Jessica will take it." "You are very kind," said Jessica coldly, "but I prefer to walk with the girls." "_You'd_ better walk, too, cross-patch, and learn a few manners from your friends," was David's parting advice to his sister. "Children, children!" exclaimed Mrs.Nesbit, "don't, I beg of you, quarrel in public." Presently the five young people had slipped out of a side door of the gymnasium and started down a back street in the direction of Anne's house.
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