6 THE CINDERELLA FROCK.

contemptuously away ; ‘‘News! I’ve known
of it these three weeks.”’

‘¢Can’t help that, Miss Rovina,’’ was the
undisturbed reply ; ‘* it’s news to me.”’

‘‘And to me! and me! and me! and me!”
echoed the little populace, while Miss Rovina
withdrew herself haughtily apart, and sat
down on the white stone close by the violets.
Had she seen them there all in their smiling
purity, I am sure she could not have looked
so unamiable, had she tried ever so muc

Little Louise, as they always called her,
the news-bringer, was a very little being,
with a cunning old face, and so many droll
ways, and such a talent at finding out every
thing, and could make herself so universally
agreeable, and was so active, and so innocent
too, she was everybody’s favorite. Besides,
had the most disagreeable’ scholar in the
school brought news of the old Hilton house,