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"Far from the sun and summer shade" -- far, that is to say, from the distractions and liability to intrusion of the more public parts of the house, lay a gallery; and off that gallery lay a room which had witnessed the evolution of Camilla. It was to witness the evolution of Bonnybell.
"In my old schoolroom you will be quite safe from interruption," Mrs. Tancred had said, when first breaking to her future pupil her intention of repairing the yawning gaps in that pupil's education. It was on the Monday morning, and there had been very little "breaking" about the -- to the ears that received it -- horrible and staggering announcement.