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Автор: Angela Brazil
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       Angela Brazil

      The Princess of the School

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664641441

       chapter i

       The Ingleton Family

       chapter ii

       A Stolen Joy-ride

       chapter iii

       A Valentine Party

       chapter iv

       Disinherited

       chapter v

       The New Owner

       chapter vi

       Princess Carmel

       chapter vii

       An Old Greek Idyll

       chapter viii

       Wood Nymphs

       chapter ix

       The Open Road

       chapter x

       A Meeting

       chapter xi

       A Secret Society

       chapter xii

       White Magic

       chapter xiii

       The Money-makers

       chapter xiv

       All in a Mist

       chapter xv

       On the High Seas

       chapter xvi

       The Casa Bianca

       chapter xvii

       Sicilian Cousins

       chapter xviii

       A Night of Adventure

       chapter xix

       At Palermo

       chapter xx

       Old England

       chapter xxi

       Carmel's Kingdom

       Table of Contents

       Table of Contents

      On a certain morning, just a week before Christmas, the little world of school at Chilcombe Hall was awake and stirring at an unusually early hour. Long before the slightest hint of dawn showed in the sky the lamps were lighted in the corridors, maids were scuttling about, bringing in breakfast, and Jones, the gardener, assisted by his eldest boy, a sturdy grinning urchin of twelve, was beginning the process of carrying down piles of hand-bags and hold-alls, and stacking them on a cart which was waiting in the drive outside.

      Miss Walters, dreading the Christmas rush on the railway, had determined to take time by the forelock, and meant to pack off her pupils by the first available trains, trusting they would most of them reach their destinations before the overcrowding became a serious problem in the traffic. The pupils themselves offered no objections to this early start. The sooner they reached home and began the holidays, so much the better from their point of view. It was fun to get up by lamp-light, when the stars were still shining in the sky; fun to find that rules were relaxed, and for once they might chatter and talk as they pleased; fun to run unreproved along the passages, sing on the stairs, and twirl one another round in an impromptu dance in the hall.

      The particular occupants of the Blue Bedroom had been astir even before the big bell clanged for rising, so they stole a march over rival dormitories, performed their toilets, packed their hand-bags, strapped their wraps, and proceeded downstairs to the dining-hall, where cups and plates were just being laid upon the breakfast-table. It