She had the reddish hair of
the Binns and the pearl-blue eyes of the Rummelsbergers from over the
mountains. Her ma was a Rummelsberger. She wasn't too spare, nor was
she too fleshy; she was just rounded right; and when she smiled--ah,
boys, when Pinky Binn smiled at Ernest from behind her g'ography his
heart went like its spring had broke. Yet he never showed it. It
would have been ruination for him to let it be known by sign or act
that Pinky Binn was other than the general class of weemen; for is
there anything worse than weemen in general? It's the exceptions,
allus the exceptions, raises trouble with a man. Pinky Binn was
Ernest's exception. But the time of his great trial come, and he was
true. He stepped forth in his right light before all the school; he
showed himself what he was--the gentle lover, the masterful fighter,
the heroic-est scholar Six Stars school had ever seen."
[Illustration: "Her name was Pinky Binn, a dotter of the house of Binn,
the Binns of Turkey Walley."]
"He whipped the teacher, I know," cried Henry Holmes.
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