It was the day before the midsummer holidays, and the girls of the first formwere sitting together in the upstairs school-room at Milvern House, discussing the events of the term, and the prospective pleasures of the nextfew weeks. Lessons had been finished in the morning, the afternoon hadbeen given up to packing, and now they were enjoying a delightfullyunsupervised hour of rest.A tall, slim girl was standing by the table, turning out the contents of a desk, and filling the waste-paper basket with fragments of paper. The other pupilswatched the movements of the small hands, and the sleek, dark head withunconscious fascination. There was something delightfully trim and daintyabout Bertha Faucit. Her hair was always neat, her actions deliberate andgraceful; she reminded one irresistibly of a sleek, well-nurtured pigeonpluming its wings in the sunshine, with a very happy sense of its ownimportanc
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