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She took the honored seat with a great air of empressement, nodded triumphantly to Gowan, cleared her throat, commanded strict silence, and began: "CHILCOMBE HALL. "I must write at once and tell you of the terrible things that have been happening at this school. On Monday last the cook made a mistake, and used a packet of rat poison instead of sugar in our pudding.
Those dimples of yours generally get what you want, and on the whole I think you're the pattern one of us, and the most likely to be listened to." Tea at Chilcombe Hall was a quite informal meal. It partook, indeed more of the nature of a canteen.
It was a distance of seven good country miles from Chilcombe Hall to Cheverley Chase, and, as the events of this story center largely round Lilias and Dulcie, there will be ample time to describe them while they are wending their way through the damp of the misty December morning, up from the low-lying river level to the hill country that stretched beyond.
"To think you've never been to Chilcombe, Ray," she said. "You and father go galloping after foxes, or shooting the poor pheasants and partridges and don't care a bit for the wonderful tiny church at Chilcombe the tiniest in England almost, I do believe.
The lovely things of nature, assimilated half unconsciously when we are young, equip us with a purity of heart and a refinement of taste that should safeguard us later, and keep our thoughts at a lofty level. The "beauty cult" was a decided feature of Chilcombe Hall. Miss Walters was extremely artistic; she painted well in water-colors and had exquisite taste.
Hester, Ida, Noreen, Joyce, Bertha, Carmel, and Doris were the only ones who reached the required totals, so under charge of Miss Herbert they were sent off one afternoon to the town, armed with a long list of commissions from the luckless ones who remained behind. Chilcombe Hall was four and a half miles from Glazebrook, and there was no motor omnibus service.
You really seem as much a part of my life as my right hand, Estelle." "Well, your right hand can't bore you, certainly." "Some of the things that it has done have bored me. But let's go to Chilcombe again not in the car but just tramp it as we did before. How often have you been there since we went?" She considered. "Twice, I think. My friends there left ten years ago and my girl friend died.
The whole business was fixed up at once, and he was to arrive within ten days. "I'm sorry we shall just miss seeing him!" said Carmel to Everard, on the evening before the girls went back to Chilcombe Hall. "But I shall think of you studying away at your Maths. You're clever, aren't you, Everard? I don't know much about English universities, but isn't a Tripos what you work for at Cambridge?
Baldwin in the car, and by this time they were probably on the road to Chilcombe without her. It was nobody's fault but her own. The feeling that she had only herself to blame did not make the situation any less unpleasant. She was four and a half miles away from school, and unless she could secure a taxi, she would be obliged to walk back.
Shouts from the bedroom presently announced that the burglar had been secured, and after a while he was led down stairs with his wrists fastened together by a piece of clothes line, and guarded on each side by two determined looking men, who hustled him into a car, and drove him off at once to the police station at Glazebrook. The excitement at Chilcombe Hall was tremendous.
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