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Updated: June 25, 2025
Haddo called the three Vivians into her private sitting-room. This room was even more elegant than the beautiful bedroom which they had just vacated. "Now, my dears," she said, "I want to have a talk with you all." Sylvia and Hester looked impatient, and shuffled from one ungainly clad foot to the other; but Mrs.
The Vivians had been living there ever since they went on poor Emily's account. They did not like to leave the place where she died you see; and Lady Tyrrell had joined them after her husband's death. Such a pleasant house! no regular gaieties, of course, but a few friends in a quiet way music and charades, and so forth.
But the twins, although they were quite popular, still clung very much to each other; and Fanny's idea was to get at Betty through her sisters. She knew quite well that often, during recess, Sylvia and Hester rushed upstairs, for what purpose she could not ascertain, the existence of the Vivians' attic being unknown to her.
When presently she introduced them into the private sitting-room of the upper school, Betty's eyes were shining quite happily; and Sylvia and Hetty, who always followed her example, were looking as merry as possible. Fanny Crawford, being requested to do so by Susie Rushworth, now introduced the Vivians to the Specialities. Mary and Julia Bertram shook hands with them quite warmly.
There had been the meeting of the Specialities; there had been the blunt refusal to make Sibyl one of their number. There was also the unpleasantness of Sibyl's insurrection; and last, but not least, a spider had been put into her bed by those wicked girls. Oh, what horrors all the Vivians were! What turmoil they had created in the hitherto orderly, happy school!
"Am I allowed to remain?" She indicated a place on the corner seat and when he took it began to talk, carefully avoiding any personal topic, but after a time he interrupted her "I heard Mrs. Keith say she was going to the Vivians in Durham later. I suppose she will take you?" Millicent said she believed so, and he continued: "It's possible I may turn up there."
'The lion and the lizard keep the courts where Jamshýd gloried and drank deep. And the vast moulded corridors, historied with great names, echoed to the feet of Garlands, Vivians, and Goldnagels, and over the boards once ennobled by the press of royal feet, a shabby young man sat writing into a book with a villainous pen, as follows: Rent $12. Board 20. Laundry 3.25 Dr.
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