_EXPLANATIONS._ THE next morning several people were absent from breakfast, among them Priscilla and Fanny. Fanny had already made a clean breast of it. "I never thought of any such thing, till one day when I was in Priscilla's room, she asked me if I didn't want something nice to read, and she lent me a novel she had. I knew that it wasn't a good book, but it was interesting, and I read it and several others. I used to go to Priscilla's room to study my lessons, and read almost all the time. And since I have slept…