Wicked! by Cooper Jilly

Author:Cooper, Jilly [Cooper, Jilly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House UK
Published: 2010-12-23T00:00:00+00:00

He must get on with his biography of Thomas and Matthew Arnold. Jupiter was so demanding. Hengist wondered if he really wanted to go into politics.

Emlyn, his normally genial face like granite, paced up and down for a moment, and then let loose his thunderbolt. How dare Paris let down his side, his house and his school and behave like a hooligan on the field.

‘And you’ve let the independent system down, behaving like a yob in front of Rod Hyde, who you know will make political capital out of the whole thing.’ Emlyn mimicked Rod for a second. “‘We could have told you he’d revert to type.”’

After another two minutes of the same rant Hengist, who was a kind man, felt Emlyn was being too brutal. To lighten the mood, Elaine got to her feet and started running on the spot on the window seat, ripping the red Paisley upholstery with her long claws.

‘I really feel—’ murmured Hengist.

‘With respect, headmaster, don’t interfere,’ snarled Emlyn, then turned on Paris again. ‘You realize knocking out a ref is a criminal offence. He could suffer brain damage.’

‘No brain to damage.’

‘Don’t be bloody cheeky,’ howled Emlyn, ‘just get out of my sight.’

‘It’s not a laughing matter,’ said Hengist sternly, flipping over a page, he read:

Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world, which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams . . .

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