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n a d?butante and might have made the hit of the season."
"Oh, Mumsy, I'm a much better district school teacher!" and Douglas blushed with pleasure at her mother's rare praise.
The girl had seen a subtle difference in her mother's manner to her ever since she had felt it her duty to take a stand about their affairs. Mrs. Carter was ever gentle, ever courteous, but Douglas knew that she looked upon her no longer as her daughter somehow,--rather as a kind of taskmistress that Fate had set over her.
The young men were gathered in the living-room waiting for the girls and when they burst upon them in all the glory of ball gowns they quite dazzled them.
"Douglas!" gasped Lewis in an ill-concealed whisper, "you somehow make me think of an Easter lily."
"Well, I don't feel like one a bit. I can't fancy an Easter lily's dancing, and I mean to dance every dance I get a chance and all the others, too."
"I reckon I can promise you that," grinned her cousin.
Bill Tinsley made no ado of taking the pretty Tillie in his arms and opening the ball with a whistled fox trot.
"I'm going to get the first dance with you, and to make sure I'll just take it now, please."
"Don't you like my dress?" asked Helen, twirling around on her toe before Dr. Wright, whose eyes plainly showed that he not only liked the dress but what was in the dress rather more than was good for the peace of mind of a rising young nerve specialist.
"Lovely!" he exclaimed, not looking at the dress at all, but at the charming face above the dress.
"Douglas gave it to me for a birthday present,--it was her extravagance, not mine. I think she is about the sweetest thing in all the world. The only thing that worries me is mashing it all up in the Suttons' hay wagon."
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