18 THE CINDERELLA FROCK.

den of which, and all that Alice could catch,
was, ‘** Let us love one another.’’

At length a small bell sounded, and the
business of the day commenced. Alice was
surprised now to note the order and quiet
regularity of every thing. Nobody was out
of place, nobody appeared ignorant of what
was required of him. The very children too,
who had been running helter skelter up and
down, and shouting like so many savages,
one hour before, now moved to and fro, or
sat busy at their desks, transformed into so
many men and women. |

There was a sedate little girl they called
Julia, a black-headed Hannah, a freckled
little Catherine, but she observed more than
all a little sour-visaged girl who held the
head of the first division, and seemed to feel
herself the head scholar in the school—our
Rovina. A sadly plain-faced little being—in