The Charm School
herself murmuring, "Well, anyhow, George worships me"; and, so undiscriminating is human egotism, that she took great comfort in this thought, although she attached but little importance in general to George's opinion.
Mr. Boyd was a tall, heavy man, not so good tempered as fat people are supposed to be. Both George and Sally took after him physically; indeed, Mrs. Boyd, who was pretty and slight, seemed like a visitor in her own family, or like a captured fairy who has assumed obligations toward her jailers. She was at heart a strangely unmaternal person, but sympathetic, and so interested—not to say curious—about all lives, her children's among others, that she really knew and understood more about them than many better parents.
"Well," she said, eagerly, as the five sat down to dinner that evening, "have you seen your new headmaster yet, and, if so, what's he like?" She would have been just as much interested in the experience of total strangers, but the girls did not know that.
They, on the other hand, were struggling with the problem that assails all young people, business men, indeed any one who is at
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