Chapter 1. A New World
_ CHAPTER I. A NEW WORLD
"Miss Montfort!" said the Principal.
Peggy looked about her.
"I wonder if it‘s another cousin!" she said to herself. "It can‘t be, or Margaret would have known. Dear Margaret! now if she were only here, she could answer, and everybody would--"
"Miss Montfort!" said the Principal again, rather sharply.
"Isn‘t that your name?" whispered the girl who sat beside Peggy. "You‘ll have to answer, you know!"
Peggy started violently, and, looking up, met the Principal‘s eyes bent upon her. She struggled to her feet, feeling herself one blush from head to foot.
"I--I beg your pardon!" she faltered. "I didn‘t suppose--did you mean me?"
"You are Miss Montfort, are you not?"
"Oh, no! my cousins are both--that is,--I am just Peggy!"
There was a general titter, which the Principal checked with her pencil. "Young ladies!" she said in a warning tone. "Miss Montfort, you will have room No. 18, in the second corridor. You will be

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