52 THE CINDERELLA FROCK.

Lizzie Hale, the largest and most womanly
‘girl in school, made to stand in the face of
the whole, and champ that apple to the core !
O, it was horrible, and poor Lizzie returned
to her seat, not only covered with mortifica-
tion, but in such a tempest of rage, she sat
pouting her great lips till intermission time.
If study hours had been dreadful, intermis-
sion was only worse. No one of the girls
could play out because of the rain, and none
of the boys could play in, for the self-same
reason. But the boys kept prancing in, and
the girls out, till the floor was one pool of
‘mud. Nor was that all ; poor Alice sat away
alone in her desk trembling at the terrible
scenes she witnessed.
_ Elizabeth, who, it appeared, was still chaf-
ing with the remembrance of her morning’s
disgrace, the moment Rovina was discovered