Mia wrote: |
At least EBD didn't Mary-Sue her up too much |
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"Your guess is as good as mine. And if you hoped for a peaceful period, Len, you did have a hope! You ought to know by this time that the Chalet School had never yet been famous for producing a gaggle of baby angels among its Middles. We weren’t such models ourselves when we were at that age. I suppose all we can do is hope for the best and prepare for the worst." |
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A more unselfish child rarely lived. All her family knew that they could have any of her posessions for the asking. She was always the one to give up her wishes to the others too. Not that she was an angel child by any means. She was outrageously untidy, and would have left everything just where she dropped it, had it not been for the vigilance of her mother, who had once declared 'I've suffered from untidyness all my life, and my daughters aren't going to do the same if I can help it!' So Len was made to put things away in their proper place. Very sweet tempered as a rule, when she was roused it took some time to calm her down; and while ready to forgive small offences, she found it hard to overlook anything that really mattered. |
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Con was generous, but she thought before she made any offers. She was by far the most placid of the three. In her short life, no one had seen her badly upset. She was rather given to daydreaming - or would have been if not for the rest of the family; and she was as tidy as Len was the reverse. Her worse fault was a love for sweet things that led her sometimes to help herself from the sugar basin or the cake tins; but she was slowly beginning to learn control in this direction. |
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Margot was the most difficult of the three. She was frankly selfish, and possessed of what her father called 'a hair trigger temper'. Luckily both parents were vigilant with faults so obvious, and already she was improving. |
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If Len had been a singleton like Joey and Mary-Lou, would we have seen a more rounded character perhaps? |
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"I wouldn't say that," Miss O’Ryan replied cautiously. "Con has her dreamy side and all her love of and feeling for history. Len has her protectiveness. When did Jo ever fail to rush to the help of anyone who seemed to need it? Len is just the same there. As for Margot, she has all her mother's love of mischief. They've split up her qualities among them; that's all." |
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She was outrageously untidy, and would have left everything just where she dropped it, had it not been for the vigilance of her mother, who had once declared 'I've suffered from untidyness all my life, and my daughters aren't going to do the same if I can help it!' So Len was made to put things away in their proper place. |
Mel wrote: |
I'm surprised that Len is the untidy one as it is a trait of the creative (like Jo and EBD) and more suited to Con. What makes her perfect is that she suppresses that untidiness. Doesn't Margot say something about Len being the tidiest of all of them? |
macyrose wrote: |
Len actually reminds me of Peggy Bettany, both are pretty, popular, eldest girls of long families, motherly, concientious of siblings, responsible, are prefects then Head Girls, both get engaged young, and both are just a little too good to be true. While I like both Len and Peggy I just don't find them as interesting and well rounded as, say, Bride, Con, or even Margot (whom I don't even like that much). |
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Jo had come back by this time, the proud mother of the winning diver, for Len had beaten everyone in her class and wound up with a beautiful swallow dive - or so her mother declared. Later on, the young lady's father said you could call it a swallow dive if you liked. To him it looked like the contortion of someone who had just taken strychnine by accident! Still there was no doubt that Len was the best diver of them all, and Jo was, as her friends and relatives declared, as proud as a cat with nine tales. |
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