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When the story was over and the narrator had gone away, Miss Peacock also rose. She stood and faced the girls.
"There are here," she said, "about twenty in all. The school contains forty girls, reckoning Christian herself. Christian cannot appear, but I should like the remaining nineteen to come to me. Star Lestrange, my dear, will you fetch the entire school into the hall?"