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Excerpt from Eyebright: A Story
While. 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 ?oor, 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 sym pathy 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.
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