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"But the unkind and the unruly, / And the sort who eat unduly, / Theirs is quite a different story. " / _Good and Bad Children_: Louis Stevenson.
They were just beginning tea, and Ruby's tongue was going fast as she described to Miss Hortensia all that happened that afternoon, while Mavis sat half-dreamily wondering what the fairy lady had meant by saying she might tell her cousin about her "if she _could_," when there came a sudden and unusual sound that made them all start. It was the clanging of the great bell at the principal entrance on the south side -- the entrance by which, you remember, all visitors, except those coming by sea, came to the castle.