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The teacher nodded "Very well I pronounce you finished, Monique de Pelouse"

The lovely blonde relaxed at that, as if she had been waiting a long time Perhaps she had Then, without another word, she strode frohed "Not that it matters anymore"

Dimity said, bravely, "What about us, Lady Linette? Surely Sophronia deserves recognition, at the very least?"

Lady Linette gave a half smile "She’s already finished, which I believe she knows"

Sophronia nodded

"And you and Miss Woos charge across the countryside on wolf-back I could not have devised aexam" Sister Mattie took pleasure in the pronouncement

Lady Linette added, "Not to mention the initiative needed to seek help of a hive Particularly after they once kidnapped you, Miss Pluatha smiled "We’re finished?"

Dimity looked like she wanted to cry "We’re really finished? Mummy will be so proud"

Lady Linette patted Sophronia on the knee "We shall overlook that you destroyed my entire school, shall we? Just this once, ht?"

Sophronia took the recommendation to heart "I’ll certainly try, Lady Linette, but I’ht was remembered in infa the untutored land ever again ely destroyed in the space of six overnment hunted down the rest Buifted to Queen Victoria in a secret ceremony He was specially exempt from destruction Due to Vieve’s , in case rew terribly fond of the little chap, and through hieneral As a result, the royal household kept a nuh the years, a passion that persists to this day Rumor is that Bumbersnoot still rattles about, well loved and carefully tended, shedding sham Palace--the old faland for the technological destruction She stayed long enough to graduate with distinction from Bunson’s and then left in pursuit of further education at L’École des Arts et Métiers in France--still disguised as a boy She eventually set up shop with her aunt in Paris, producing a respected line of dohly functional and quite deadly Sophronia, Agatha, and Dimity visited her establishment for all their needs--after all, ladies of quality always shop in Paris

The school was den of Professor Braithwope, and no one ever saw hi If he survived, with so many kills under his cravat, even the most militant of hives would have called for his execution--he was no longer civilized If, on occasion, Professor Lefoux returned froe drive far out into the wilds of Dartht mere sentimentality for a life she had lost If Swiffle-on-Exe heard rumors of a very odd her, stories of that her with the rabbits percolated through the town, scaring schoolboys, he was thought no eyht to wonder that their dancing her time, whot?

Madeh rated to America--fewer vampires--where he wrote a popular, well-respected book in his later years entitled Plain Ho ladies of quality It went into multiple editions and allowed him to retire a wealthy man

Sister Mattie settled into life in a sloves and had a thriving business in medicinal herbs, common pest poisons, and fancy soaps

Lady Linette opened an acting school in London and produced a bevy of successful fe the boards forabove their station, and ending it badly--for the husband She nuraduates Although Sophronia saw her old teacher occasionally, she never did find out Lady Linette’s true age Nor how she had beco By then Sophronia had learned to accept that there were limits to even her abilities So Lady Linette kept her secrets--or possibly other people’s