80 THE CINDERELLA FROCK.

her sentence? There was a great deal of
mysterious whispering ; a great many con-
ferences they held, and one night, after
school, chancing to return for a book, she
found the whole school assembled, and, to
appearance, she had interrupted the rehearsal
of some scene. She scampered away in great
trepidation, and one of her old fits of jealousy
came very,near her, upon the instant ; but
she ran away from the ill-looking thing, and
took Alice’s word,—why should she be un-
happy, or lonely even, if she could only keep
her thoughts bright and good 2 |
No, she got a habit for all that of singing
and dancing forever ; and when she went
home, her mother would give her such a greet-
ing,—and the baby got to know her step, and
would call out to her before she reached the
door,—Rovy! Rovy! some witchery it had,
in pitching upon Louise’ diminutive, and it