Angela Brazil

CHAPTER I A School Election It was precisely five minutes past eleven on the first day of the autumn term, and Avondale College, which for seven whole weeks had been lonely and deserted, and given over to the tender mercies of paperhangers, painters, and charwomen, once more presented its wonted...

VILLAGE SCHOOL Laurie Lee The village to which our family had come was a scattering of somé twenty to thirty houses down the south-east slope of a valley. The valley was narrow, steep, and almost entirely cut ofF; it was alsó a funnel for winds, a channel for the floods and a jungly,...