Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... The next two days witnessed the arrival of many more girls and boys, with bright, happy-looking faces. Their silent yet spirited conversation, and the play of varied expressions upon their countenances, proved for Carrie a source of much interest, though she kept shyly apart from the busy, animated talkers, aware of her inability to take part in their silent conversation. CHAPTER IV. THE COMMENCEMENT OF SCHOOL DUTIES. Thursday morning, the time in which active school duties were to commence, Carrie was placed with the other girls, who stood in a long line in the large study. room. After each one had been assigned a place in the line they all marched in single file through the.girl's sewing-room, which -adjoined their, study-room, and so down stairs and on to a large building adjacent, which they entered. Passing through a corridor, they mounted a flight of steps, at the top of which a door, to the left, led into the chapel, a spacious room, lighted partly by rows of windows extending along two sides of it, and partly by an immense, skylight above. There were rows of long, dark-colored benches, commencing in front of and near an elevated platform, and rising gradually from it, each successive bench being about a foot above the level of the preceding one, thus affording a free and unobstructed view of the platform from remote parts of the room. Into this room the girls marched slowly, while through the door on the opposite side of-the room a long line of boys were also slowly entering. After all were seated--the boys, on the left and the girls on the right--a neatlydressed gentleman came into the room, mounted the steps of the platform, and, turning to the assembled throng, gazed into their pleasant faces for a few minutes; then, smiling, ..
