Monitress Merle by Angela Brazil
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believe it's going to be an easy business."
"'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,'" quoted Mavis laughingly. "Exactly. I wanted tremendously to be monitress, but I didn't realise all I was in for. I see many breezes in front." "You'll weather them all, don't fear! After such a splendid start I've every confidence in you. It's only a question now of keeping it up and going ahead." Merle was not mistaken in her estimation of the difficulties that lay before her. A certain section of the juniors, led by Winnie Osborne and Joyce Colman, the firebrands of the Third form, offered great resistance to the authority of the monitresses, and put every possible obstacle in their way. To keep these unruly youngsters in order meant a constant clashing of wills, and needed much courage and determination. Some of the new girls also were inclined to rebel and to air their own views. Sybil Vernon, in particular, was a thorn in the flesh. She had been at boarding-school before, and on the strength of her previous experience she offered advice upon any and every occasion. She was very aggrieved that she had not been eligible for election to office herself. "I know so much more about it than most of you!" she would explain airily. "If Miss Pollard had only chosen _me_ as a monitress I could have organised everything exactly like it used to be done at The Limes." Sybil was a curious girl, fair, with a fat babyish face, and a vast idea of her own importance. She was very proud of her family, and never for a moment forgot, or allowed anybody else to forget, that she belonged to |
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