"
"Singular!" remarked Miss Diana, elevating her eyebrows. "Do you hear,
Miss Raymond? You can go."
"I do not wish to go, Miss Diana," replied Lulu, steadying her voice with
some difficulty.
"Indeed! that has nothing to do with it, and you will please go at once."
Lulu sat still in her seat with a look of stubborn determination on her
face.
"Do you hear, Miss Raymond?" asked the teacher, raising her voice to a
higher key.
"Yes, ma'am; but I shall never take another lesson from that man."
"And why not, pray?"
"Because he is not a gentleman."
Miss Diana looked utterly astonished. "Well, really!" she exclaimed at
length. "I shall not discuss that point with you at present, but it has
nothing to with the matter in hand. Will you be pleased to go and finish
your music-lesson?"
"No, ma'am; I have said I shall never be taught by him again; and I am
not one to break my word," concluded Lulu, loftily.
"Very well, miss; we will see what my father has to say to that."
She stepped to the door and summoned him.
He came, marching in with his most pompous air, and glancing frowningly
around, inquired what was wanted.
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