Daddy-Long-Legs: List 1

It was a distressing time; and poor Jerusha Abbott, being the oldest orphan, had to bear the brunt of it.

Jerusha assembled her charges, straightened their rumpled frocks, wiped their noses, and started them in an orderly and willing line towards the dining-room to engage themselves for a blessed half hour with bread and milk and prune pudding.

Mrs. Lippett, behind the scenes, did not always maintain that calm and pompous dignity with which she faced an audience of Trustees and lady visitors.

Jerusha gazed out across a broad stretch of frozen lawn, beyond the tall iron paling that marked the confines of the asylum, down undulating ridges sprinkled with country estates, to the spires of the village rising from the midst of bare trees.

Jerusha gazed out across a broad stretch of frozen lawn, beyond the tall iron paling that marked the confines of the asylum, down undulating ridges sprinkled with country estates, to the spires of the village rising from the midst of bare trees.

Jerusha gazed out across a broad stretch of frozen lawn, beyond the tall iron paling that marked the confines of the asylum, down undulating ridges sprinkled with country estates, to the spires of the village rising from the midst of bare trees.

Jerusha leaned forward watching with curiosity—and a touch of wistfulness—the stream of carriages and automobiles that rolled out of the asylum gates.

She pictured herself in a fur coat and a velvet hat trimmed with feathers leaning back in the seat and nonchalantly murmuring 'Home' to the driver.

Mrs. Lippett in the office,
And I think she's mad.
Ah-a-men!

Tommy piously intoned, but his accent was not entirely malicious.

Mrs. Lippett in the office,
And I think she's mad.
Ah-a-men!

Tommy piously intoned, but his accent was not entirely malicious.

Mrs. Lippett in the office,
And I think she's mad.
Ah-a-men!

Tommy piously intoned, but his accent was not entirely malicious.

Had—O horrors!—one of the cherubic little babes in her own room F 'sauced' a Trustee?

Jerusha caught only a fleeting impression of the man—and the impression consisted entirely of tallness.

To her surprise the matron was also, if not exactly smiling, at least appreciably affable; she wore an expression almost as pleasant as the one she donned for visitors.

To her surprise the matron was also, if not exactly smiling, at least appreciably affable; she wore an expression almost as pleasant as the one she donned for visitors.

I am not at liberty to mention his name; he expressly stipulated that he was to remain unknown.

Jerusha's eyes widened slightly; she was not accustomed to being summoned to the office to discuss the eccentricities of Trustees with the matron.

Heretofore his philanthropies have been directed solely towards the boys; I have never been able to interest him in the slightest degree in any of the girls in the institution, no matter how deserving.

Heretofore his philanthropies have been directed solely towards the boys; I have never been able to interest him in the slightest degree in any of the girls in the institution, no matter how deserving.

Mrs. Lippett allowed a moment of silence to fall, then resumed in a slow, placid manner extremely trying to her hearer's suddenly tightened nerves.

Of course the usual disposition of one in your place would be to put you in a position where you could begin to work, but you have done well in school in certain branches; it seems that your work in English has even been brilliant.

Miss Pritchard, who is on our visiting committee, is also on the school board; she has been talking with your rhetoric teacher, and made a speech in your favour.

But fortunately for you, Mr.—, that is, the gentleman who has just gone—appears to have an immoderate sense of humour.

On the strength of that impertinent paper, he has offered to send you to college.

The gentleman, I may say, is erratic.

If any point should ever arise where an answer would seem to be imperative—such as in the event of your being expelled, which I trust will not occur—you may correspond with Mr. Griggs, his secretary.

These monthly letters are absolutely obligatory on your part; they are the only payment that Mr. Smith requires, so you must be as punctilious in sending them as though it were a bill that you were paying.

Her head was in a whirl of excitement, and she wished only to escape from Mrs. Lippett's platitudes and think.

She rose and took a tentative step backwards.

I trust that you are properly grateful for this very rare good fortune that has befallen you?

The door closed behind her, and Mrs. Lippett watched it with dropped jaw, her peroration in mid-air.

I suppose the registrar didn't think it would be right to ask a properly brought-up girl to room with a foundling.

I'm little of course, but terribly quick and wiry and tough.

She never makes the slightest effort to be amiable.

IV. English: Studying exposition. My style improves daily in clearness and brevity.

IV. English: Studying exposition. My style improves daily in clearness and brevity.

I wish Mrs. Lippett would use a little more ingenuity about choosing babies' names.

It belongs to the kind of girl I'm not—a sweet little blue-eyed thing, petted and spoiled by all the family, who romps her way through life without any cares.

I forgot to post this yesterday, so I will add an indignant postscript.

I forgot to post this yesterday, so I will add an indignant postscript.