`` Of course , she 's a bit queer and unamiable , but , girls , think of thirty years of boarding-house life , even with the best of Plunketts . Would n't that sour anybody ? You know it would . You 'd be cranky and grumbly and disagreeable too , I dare say . I 'm really sorry for Miss Marshall . She 's had a very hard life . Mrs. Plunkett told me all about her one day . I do n't think we should mind her biting little speeches and sharp looks . And anyway , even if she is really as disagreeable as she sometimes seems to be , why , it must make it all the harder for her , do n't you think ? So she needs a letter most of all . I 'll write to her , since it 's my suggestion . We 'll draw lots for the others . '' Besides Miss Marshall , the new music teacher fell to Cyrilla 's share . Mary drew Mrs. Plunkett and the dressmaker , and Carol drew Mrs. Johnson and old Mr. Grant . For the next two hours the girls wrote busily , forgetting all about the rainy day , and enjoying their epistolary labours to the full . It was dusk when all the letters were finished . `` Why , has n't the afternoon gone quickly after all ! '' exclaimed Carol . `` I just let my pen run on and jotted down any good working idea that came into my head . Cyrilla Blair , that big fat letter is never for Miss Marshall !
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