I shall hope and expect to have you visit me often . If your mother and your brothers and sisters see fit to come with you , I shall welcome them also . I think that this is all it is necessary to say just now . Will you stay to tea with me this evening ? '' Dorinda stayed to tea , since she knew that Jean was at home to attend to matters there . She and Uncle Eugene got on famously . When she left , Uncle Eugene , grim and hard-lipped as ever , saw her to the door . `` Good evening , Niece Dorinda . You are a Page and I am proud of you . Tell your mother that many things in this life are lost through not asking for them . I do n't think you are in need of the information for yourself . '' Her Own People The Taunton School had closed for the summer holidays . Constance Foster and Miss Channing went down the long , elm-shaded street together , as they generally did , because they happened to board on the same block downtown . Constance was the youngest teacher on the staff , and had charge of the Primary Department . She had taught in Taunton school a year , and at its close she was as much of a stranger in the little corps of teachers as she had been at the beginning . The others thought her stiff and unapproachable ; she was unpopular in a negative way with all except Miss Channing , who made it a profession to like everybody , the more so if other people disliked them . Miss Channing was the oldest teacher on the staff , and taught the fifth grade . She was short and stout and jolly ; nothing , not even the iciest reserve , ever daunted Miss Channing . `` Is n't it good to think of two whole blessed months of freedom ? '' she said jubilantly .
`` Two months to dream , to be lazy , to go where one pleases , no exercises XXXXX correct , no reports to make , no pupils to keep in order .
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