Enid Blyton's Second Form at Malory Towers: Enid Blyton by Enid Blyton

Author:Enid Blyton [Blyton, Enid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Mysteries & Detective Stories
ISBN: 9780603553325
Publisher: Dean
Published: 1994-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

"I'm not afraid!" said Alicia. But she was. She hadn't been in Miss Grayling's good books lately and she knew it. She didn't want to be hauled over the coals for this now. But she didn't like the girls' scornful glances.

"Mam’zelle Dupont's gone off to join the merry family now." said Darrell. "I wonder what is happening."

Mam'zelle Dupont had swept into the Head's drawing-room, startling both Miss Grayling and Mam'zelle Rougier. Miss Grayling was just getting an account of the quarrel between the two French mistresses from a rather shamefaced Mam'zelle Rougier, when the other Mam'zelle swept in.

She saw the book of drawings at once and picked them up. She examined them. "Ah, ha, ha! This Belinda is a genius! Ha ha!—look at me here. Miss Grayling—did you ever see such a plump rabbit as I look? And oh, Mam'zelle Rougier. what are you doing with that dagger? It is marvellous, wonderful I But see here! I am to be poisoned!"

Mam'zelle Dupont went off into peals of laughter. She wiped the tears from her eyes. "You do not think it is funny?" she said in astonishment to the other mistresses. "But look—look—here I am to be shot with this gun. As if my good friend Mam'zelle Rougier would do such a thing to me! Ah, we quarrel sometimes, she and I. but it matters nothing! We are two Frenchwomen together, n'est ce pas, Mam'zelle Rougier, and we have much to put up with from these bad English girls!”

Mam'zelle Rougier began to look a little less frigid. Miss Grayling looked at one or two of the pictures and allowed herself to smile. "This one is really very funny, Mam'zelle Dupont," she said "And this one, too. Of course, the whole thing is most disrespectful, and I want you both to say what punishment we must give the class—and especially, of course, Belinda."

There was a silence. "I feel," began Mam'zelle Rougier, at last, "I feel. Miss Grayling, that perhaps Mam'zelle Dupont and I are a little to blame for an this—our stupid quarrel, you know—naturally it intrigues the girls—and .. .”

"Ah, yes, you are right!" cried Mam'zelle Dupont,

fervently. "You arc quite, quite right, my friend. It is we who are to blame. Miss Grayling—we demand no punishment for the bad, bad girls! We will forgive them."

Mam'zelle Rougier looked a little taken aback. Why should Mam'zelle Dupont forgive them? They hadn’t drawn her unkindly! But Mam'zelle Dupont was rushing on in her headlong way.

"These pictures, they are more funny than bad! It is a tease, a joke, is it not? We do not mind! It was our stupid quarrel that started it. But now, now we are friends, are we not, Mam'zelle Rougier?"

Mam'zelle Rougier could not say no to that. Swept away in spite of herself, she nodded. Mam'zelle Dupont gave her two sudden and exuberant kisses, one on each cheek. Miss Grayling was much amused.

That Belinda!" said Mam'zelle Dupont, looking at the drawings again. "Ah, what a clever child. One day, maybe, Miss Grayling, we shall be proud of these drawings! When Belinda is famous, Mam'zelle Rougier and I.

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