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CONTENTS.


CHAPTER PAGE

I. LADY JANE AND LORD GUILDFORD 1

II. AFTER SCHOOL 18

III. MR. JOYCE 43

IV. A DAY WITH THE SHAKERS 66

V. HOW THE BLACK DOG HAD HIS DAY 85

VI. CHANGES 104

VII. BETWEEN THE OLD HOME AND THE NEW 122

VIII. CAUSEY ISLAND 143

IX. SHUT UP IN THE OVEN 166

X. A LONG YEAR IN A SHORT CHAPTER 188

XI. A STORM ON THE COAST 204

XII. TRANSPLANTED 226




EYEBRIGHT.




CHAPTER I.

LADY JANE AND LORD GUILDFORD.


[Illustration: "THE FALCON'S NEST."]

It wanted but five minutes to twelve in Miss Fitch's schoolroom, and a
general restlessness showed that her scholars were aware of the fact.
Some of the girls had closed their books, and were putting their desks
to rights, with a good deal of unnecessary fuss, keeping an eye on the
clock meanwhile. The boys wore the air of dogs who see their master
coming to untie them; they jumped and quivered, making the benches
squeak and rattle, and shifted their feet about on the uncarpeted
floor, producing sounds of the kind most trying to a nervous teacher.
A general expectation prevailed. Luckily, Miss Fitch was not nervous.
She had that best of all gifts for teaching,--calmness; and she
understood her pupils and their ways, and had sympathy with them. She
knew how hard it is for feet with the dance of youth in them to keep
still for three long hours on a June morning; and there was a
pleasant, roguish look in her face as she laid her hand on the bell,
and, meeting the twenty-two pairs of expectant eyes which were fixed
on hers, rang it--dear Miss Fitch--actually a minute and a half before
the time.