cold disdain.
"Rebecca, I am afraid I punished you more than I meant," said
Miss Dearborn, who was only eighteen herself, and in her year of
teaching country schools had never encountered a child like
Rebecca.
"I had n't missed a question this whole day, nor whispered
either," quavered the culprit; and I don't think I ought to be
shamed just for drinking."
"You started all the others, or it seemed as if you did. Whatever
you do they all do, whether you laugh, or write notes, or ask to
leave the room, or drink; and it must be stopped."
"Sam Simpson is a copycoat!" stormed Rebecca. "I would n't have
minded standing in the corner alone--that is, not so very much;
but I couldn't bear standing with him."
"I saw that you could n't, and that's the reason I told you to
take your seat, and left him in the corner. Remember that you are
a stranger in the place, and they take more notice of what you
do, so you must be careful. Now let's have our conjugations.
Give me the verb 'to be,' potential mood, past perfect tense."
"I might have been
Thou mightst have been
He might have been
We might have been
You might have been
They might have been"

"Give me an example, please."

"I might have been glad
Thou mightst have been glad