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Updated: May 19, 2025
Bonaventure seemed scarce less tempest-tossed than he; and all about the school the distress spread as wintry gray overcasts a sky. Only Sidonie moved calmly her accustomed round, like some fair, silent, wide-winged bird circling about a wreck. At length the lad and his teacher were left alone. Claude sat very still, looking at his toil-worn hands lying crossed on the desk.
'Never mind' his mistress went briskly over to a wide-winged writing-table and seated herself before a litter of papers 'I won't have her disturbed if she's resting, Lady John said, adding half to herself, 'she certainly needs it. 'Yes, m'lady, said Sutton, adjusting the maroon collar of his livery which had insisted upon riding up at the back.
She was hanging over the starboard rail looking at a flock of wide-winged gulls which were besieging the port of the cook's galley. He paid very little attention to her, except to note that she was tall, rhythmic, and that a dark-gray plaid dress, and an immense veil of gray silk wound about her shoulders and waist and over one arm, after the manner of a Hindu shawl, appeared to become her much.
Then, heralded by a droning noise as of giant bees, and a vicious spitting of shrapnel, high overhead sailed a wide-winged black bird, chased by four other birds bigger, because nearer earth.
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