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What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge
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live in a little mite of a house, and her father paints portraits."

"But I should think that would be nice. Doesn't she ever take you to
see his pictures?"

"Take me!" cried Lilly, indignantly. "I should think not. I tell
you we don't visit. I just speak when we're here, but I never see
her when I'm at home."

"Move on, young ladies. What are you stopping for?" cried Miss Jane.

"Yes; move on," muttered Rose Red, from behind. "Don't you hear
Policeman X?"

From walking-hour till tea-time was "recreation" again. Lilly
improved this opportunity to call at No. 6. She had waited to see
how the girls were likely to take in the school before committing
herself to intimacy; but, now that Rose Red had declared in their
favor, she was ready to begin to be friendly.

"How lovely!" she said, looking about. "You got the end room, after
all, didn't you? What splendid times you'll have! Oh, how plainly
you can see Berry Searles's window! Has he spoken to you yet?"

"Spoken to us,--of course not! Why should he?" replied Katy: "he
doesn't know us, and we don't know him."

"That's nothing: half the girls in the school bow, and speak, and
carry on with young men they don't know. You won't have a bit of
fun if you're so particular."
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