Excerpt from What Happened to Barbara

At this moment the bell rang and the girls separated to their seats.

Barbara was very happy in this school, which was what was called a Select School, of not more than forty or fifty girls. It was held in one large room with a Single row of desks all around next the wall.

Nearly everything about it was pleasant to Barbara. She liked the teacher, and she liked her studies, but the dearest of all to her was a little secret Society of half a dozen of her most intimate friends who had united them selves together for the purpose of indulging their love for writing. Who started it has long been forgotten, but as two of the party became well-known writers at a later day, it is to be supposed that one of them formed it.

In this little society each girl assumed a character either from history or from a favor ite romance, or a purely imaginary one. This fictitious personage chose her residence in some foreign country and pretended to write all her letters from there, trying in every way to act the character she had chosen.

One of the girls, for instance, took the name of a favorite young girl in Scott's nov els, and dated her letters in the Highlands of Scotland, another became a princess of France and wrote the most wonderful stories of life in a royal palace, a third buried herself in the woods and wrote hermit letters from there.

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