Benet's, Miss Peel, who are, I fancy,
circumstanced like you. Their friends find it difficult to send them
here, but they make the sacrifice, sometimes in one way, sometimes in
another-- and the girls come. They know it is their duty to study;
they have an ulterior motive, which underlies everything else. They
know by and by they must pay back."
"Oh, yes," said Priscilla, starting forward and a flush coming into
her face. "I know that-- that is what it is for. To pay back
worthily-- to give back a thousandfold what you have received. Those
girls can't be idle, can they?" she added in a gentle, piteous sort of
way.
"My dear, there have been several such girls at St. Benet's, and none
of them has been idle; they have been best and first among our
students. Many of them have done more than well-- many of them have
brought fame to St. Benet's. They are in the world now and earning
honorable livelihoods as teachers or in other departments where
cultivated women can alone take the field. These girls are all paying
back a thousandfold those who have helped them."
"Yes," said Prissie.
"You would like to follow their example?"
"Oh, yes; please tell me about them."
"Some of them were like you and thought they would take up
everything-- everything I mean in the scholastic line.
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