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CHAPTER III. "ONE FLEW EAST." The New York letter reached the hotel
while Eugenia was out in the park with her maid, and the bell-boy
brought it to her on a salver with several others, as she was
stepping into the elevator to go up to her room. " Here, take my
gloves, Eliot " she exclaimed, tossing them to the maid, and
beginning to tear open the envelopes as soon as her hands were
free. Eliot, a plain, middle-aged woman, with a patient face and
slow gait, picked up the gloves, and followed her young mistress
down the corridor. Eugenia dashed into her sitting-room, throwing
herself into a big armchair, regardless of the fact that she was
crushing the roses in her pretty new hat as she leaned her head
against the high back. Three of the letters which she opened so
eagerly were from the girls who had been her best friends at
boarding-school. She had been away from River- dale Seminary only a
week, but already she was homesick to go back. The school was a
very select one, and the rules were rigid, but Eugenia had known no
other home for three years. In the great hotel where she was now,
she saw her father only in the evenings, and during breakfast, and
she always rebelled when she had to go back to it in vacation.
There was so little she could do that she really enjoyed. There was
a stupid round of drives and walks, shopping and piano practice,
and after that nothing but to mope and fret and worry poor Eliot.
At school there was always the excitement of evading some rule or
breaking it without being caught; and if there was no jcke in
prospect to giggle over, there was the memory of one just passed to
make them laugh. And then there were always Mollie and Fay and Kit
Keller ? dear old " Kell" ? ready to laugh or cry or lark with her
any hour of the day or night, as...
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