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fiery_ring) wrote2008-04-14 09:03 pm
fiery_ring) wrote2008-04-14 09:03 pm
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The scene, the common room. A minute ago, noisy, but now held in almost deadly silence apart from one voice.
"The girls would soon despise you if they knew what I know. You wouldn't have any friends then. No one would want to know - a common little circus girl!"
"Shut up, Prudence," said Bobby, "Don't tell silly lies."
"It's not silly lies. It's the truth, the whole truth. There's a circus camp over near Trenton, and I talked to a man there - and he told me Carlotta was a circus girl, and knew how to handle horses, and was nothing but a common little girl from a circus belonging to his brother. And we have to put up with living with a girl like her!"
"Carlotta - did you really live in a circus?"
"Yes, I was a circus girl. And I loved it."
[Summer Term at St Clare's]
"The girls would soon despise you if they knew what I know. You wouldn't have any friends then. No one would want to know - a common little circus girl!"
"Shut up, Prudence," said Bobby, "Don't tell silly lies."
"It's not silly lies. It's the truth, the whole truth. There's a circus camp over near Trenton, and I talked to a man there - and he told me Carlotta was a circus girl, and knew how to handle horses, and was nothing but a common little girl from a circus belonging to his brother. And we have to put up with living with a girl like her!"
"Carlotta - did you really live in a circus?"
"Yes, I was a circus girl. And I loved it."
[Summer Term at St Clare's]