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Title: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Vikki on Jan 13th, 2004, 1:48am Restarted because of length first part (http://members.lycos.co.uk/thecbb/julietchildhood.html) second part (http://members.lycos.co.uk/thecbb/julietchildhood2.html) |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 13th, 2004, 3:09am Surely, Abi, this big white space is urging you to fill it with more story! |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Vikki on Jan 13th, 2004, 3:12am *watches Abi try vainly to make herself invisible* |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 13th, 2004, 3:18am *wishes Abi would stop wasting precious writing time* |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Lesley on Jan 13th, 2004, 8:44am Hopes Abi will hurry up and add to this. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Abi on Jan 13th, 2004, 11:49am The Carricks duly arrived, and it was with enormous apprehension that Juliet wended her way to the study. As she entered she saw that her fears had been well grounded. Captain Carrick was adept at presenting a good appearance when it pleased him, but it was an impossible task even for his skill to put a really good face on this. The best he could do was pretend to accept it with a good grace, and when Juliet entered he was smiling at the Headmistress. His daughter was not decieved. She observed instantly the wolfish quality behind the smile and was well aware that her father was furiously angry. Probably with herself. Dorita Carrick was not smiling. Her face was white, and Juliet wondered why she looked so worried. She remembered the thought she had had when she was trying to work out why her parents had left her as they had. She had thought then that there must be something badly wrong, and now it seemed that her mother was still worrying about that. “Poor mother,” Juliet caught herself thinking. “She looks awfully unhappy.” She found herself feeling a sudden, unexpected pity for her mother. Then she shook herself and listened to what Lindley was saying. “Juliet, go and pack whatever you will need for a few days. We are removing you from this school as of today.” After what Miss Sniggins had said and her own surmises, this was only what she had expected, and as no-one else seemed to have anything to say to her she replied submissively, “Yes, father,” and thankfully escaped. As she packed her nightcase she wondered whether she would be permitted to say goodbye to her friends. Eventually she decided that knowing her parents they would probably refuse, so instead of returning to the study immediately she hastened off to the common room, where she expected to find her friends. “Julie!” called Mavis. “What’s up now? The Snig seems to be enjoying your company a lot at the moment!” Juliet gritted her teeth, but came and stood in front of her friend. “Mavis…” Something in her voice caught the attention of both Mavis and Dorothea, and they stared up at her. “What’s happened, Julie?” asked Dorothea, uneasily. Juliet spoke with difficulty. “I just thought I’d come and let you know. I’m leaving.” The jaws of most of the girls in the room dropped. It was Mavis who recovered first. “But – why?” she gasped. “And when?” Juliet’s lips pinched. “Now,” she said succinctly. “I just came to say goodbye.” “But you can’t just leave, like that,” protested Dorothea feebly. “I can. I am,” said Juliet. “Goodbye.” She turned and quickly walked out of the room. Once outside she stood still for a moment, clenching and unclenching her fists. Then she picked up the nightcase, which she had left at the door, and went quickly down the corridor towards the study. Half an hour later they had left Miss Sniggins and the school, never to return. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Jennie on Jan 13th, 2004, 4:10pm And what now for poor Juliet? I bet those ghastly parents take it out on her. Any takers? |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 13th, 2004, 10:35pm I don't bet on certainties. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Vikki on Jan 14th, 2004, 1:49am Thank you Abi!! And poor Juliet!!!! :'( |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Susan on Jan 14th, 2004, 1:52am Poor Juliet, how long until they get to Austria? |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 14th, 2004, 1:56am Well, Juliet's fifteen at this point in the story, which is about the same age as she was when she came to the CS, so I'd say it won't be long at all! |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Susan on Jan 14th, 2004, 9:45am Oh good. Not long until she's out of their clutches then. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Carolyn P on Jan 14th, 2004, 9:49am Oh, Abi! Poor, poor Juliet. Please get her safe to the Chalet and through that first term soon. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 14th, 2004, 10:54am on 01/14/04 at 09:45:26, Susan wrote:
Hopefully not, unless I've mixed up her ages in the current story. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Chloe on Jan 14th, 2004, 6:16pm Quote:
It's not that i don't like them i just wanted more story which i now have got, thank you Abi :) |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by PatMac on Jan 14th, 2004, 7:02pm Poor Juliet. Let's get her safe to CS, please. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 14th, 2004, 9:56pm Come on, Abi! More, please! |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Lesley on Jan 15th, 2004, 8:17pm *Glad that we know this one has a happy ending!* Do you think the Carricks would have hit Juliet? |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Vikki on Jan 15th, 2004, 9:33pm I think they went for mental cruelty, rather than physical cruelty, but you never know..... :-/ |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 16th, 2004, 3:08am on 01/15/04 at 20:17:47, Lesley wrote:
Only in places where it wouldn't show! |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Kathryn on Jan 16th, 2004, 4:56am on 01/15/04 at 20:17:47, Lesley wrote:
I don't think they would have as it would have meant exerting more energy on someone they didn't want to spend any energy on. They would just have treated her with complete and utter disdain and take out their frustrations on her, but not to the level of physical violence. :-/ |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Abi on Jan 16th, 2004, 10:59am I would be posting more right now but unfortunately what I have written I can't access because our damned Y drive is down which is where we save our work to. I find your conjectures very interesting in consideration of what comes next........... |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 16th, 2004, 11:03am Oh, poor Abi! *lots of huggles* But won't you tell us, instead of tormenting us like this? Please!!! |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Abi on Jan 16th, 2004, 11:09am Why tell you when I can keep you in suspense 8oo *running off to stalk men* |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Lesley on Jan 16th, 2004, 3:20pm on 01/16/04 at 11:09:50, Abi wrote:
Abi, is this a normal hobby of yours or did you have an ulterior motive? ;) |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Rachel on Jan 16th, 2004, 3:27pm on 01/16/04 at 11:09:50, Abi wrote:
Sounds like my kind of hobby! Do you need a |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Abi on Jan 16th, 2004, 3:27pm Gosh - what made me write that ::) My friend is a bit obsessed with men (she has about four at the moment) so I get to be the excuse for her following them into the library, computer centre, dining hall etc etc ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Chloe on Jan 16th, 2004, 6:24pm on 01/16/04 at 15:27:06, Abi wrote:
That sounds like one of my friends she pulled me into the year 12 common roon to chat up this bloke she knows, yet she's already juggling 3 boyfriends ::) |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 17th, 2004, 3:48am on 01/16/04 at 15:27:02, Rachel wrote:
But Rachel, you don't just stalk them, do you? How boring! |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Jennie on Jan 17th, 2004, 1:37pm KB, KB, Rachel serves them up with new potatoes and mint sauce! Have you forgotten that already? |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 17th, 2004, 10:59pm I wondered if she might vary her diet now and then. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Alison on Jan 17th, 2004, 11:38pm Oh, I've just read the whole drabble *sniff, reaches for a tissue* You can imagine that this is exactly what happened to poor Juliet. And how interesting that she didn't really like history at school, but the mistress was kind to her - yet, she went on to read history at university! (Apologies for getting away from the yibbling, but am eager to read as many drabbles as possible!) |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Lesley on Jan 17th, 2004, 11:59pm Alison - I thought she read Maths? |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Vikki on Jan 18th, 2004, 12:42am I thought she did Maths too! ??? |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 18th, 2004, 1:20am Yes, she did Maths. Biddy is the only Old Girl who read History. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Vikki on Jan 18th, 2004, 1:24am Erm.... KB, what price Mary Burnett? |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 18th, 2004, 1:36am Do we ever hear about her going to uni? If so, I sit corrected. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Vikki on Jan 18th, 2004, 1:43am I'm sure she talks about going to the Sorbonne to do history in one of the books where she's head girl! |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 18th, 2004, 1:46am Okay, I may have missed that. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Chloe on Jan 18th, 2004, 1:32pm Please may we have some more story :) |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Lesley on Jan 18th, 2004, 2:24pm Echoes Chloe's request! |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Carolyn P on Jan 18th, 2004, 3:09pm Begins a slightly off key chant. Please drown me out with more story. ;D |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Alison on Jan 18th, 2004, 6:44pm on 01/17/04 at 23:59:37, Lesley wrote:
Yes, of course she did Maths - don't know what my brain was thinking of. I thought she went to London Uni before becoming Head at the Annexe. Please excuse my total inaccuracies - it's been such a long time sincs I read the books and they're all packed up at my mum's. *hangs head in shame and hopes to be forgiven* |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Lesley on Jan 18th, 2004, 7:07pm That's alright Alison - no problem! |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Chloe on Jan 18th, 2004, 7:18pm *joins in the chant* Please may we have more story! Alison don't worry everyone gets things muddled now and then ;) |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Vikki on Jan 19th, 2004, 12:47am Even EBD got confused..... |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 19th, 2004, 3:21am And not just once! |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Abi on Jan 19th, 2004, 9:38am Yaaaayyyyy!!! At last the Y-drive is back up.... so here is what I had written. There is more which I haven't had time to type up yet - in fact I've finished the story. 8oo They left India almost as soon as they had exited the school. Indeed, their departure was so hasty that it smacked strongly of flight. Juliet was furiously angry with her parents. That brief moment of sympathy for her mother had long since vanished and she felt that she had never hated as she did now. As a matter of fact, Lindley and Dorita were equally irate over the situation. Lindley had not been exaggerating when he wrote that he could not afford to keep Juliet – his debts were such that he had been unable to pay many of them off and in a moment of unusual peace with his wife he confided the entire sad story to her. I have said before that Dorita was not a predictable person, and instead of berating him with her uncontrolled tongue she seemed to understand and want to help and support him. It had been her idea to leave Juliet with Miss Sniggins. The Carricks did not go to England. They made for Europe and lingered there for some time, moving frequently and leaving across the continent a trail of wrathful hotel and guesthouse proprietors who had not been paid. Juliet was dragged round after them and her resentment festered and grew. She hated the way they treated her as a parcel, to be picked up, carried round and dumped down at their will. The situation was not helped by Dorita, who quite irrationally blamed her daughter for Miss Snigigns’ success in catching up with them, and who continued to treat Juliet with an acidic sharpness that made her grind her teeth and become sulky and rebellious. Perhaps the most aggravating thing was that Dorita continually scolded her and nagged at her when there were other people around. It was as though she wanted to show them what a reprobate she had for a daughter – to humiliate Juliet in ublic. It was hardly surprising that Juliet determined that she would not sit down under this treatment. One of the worst incidents between them occurred when they were in a little-known town in France. Juliet had been gazing, enchanted, into the window of a small shop that sold all sorts of fascinating toys. Dorita came up behind her. “Juliet!” she said, in her high-pitched, penetrating voice. “Come away from that window. How dare you stare into it like that with the – the – that vulgar curiosity!” Juliet hunched her shoulders and her lips pinched together so that there was a line of white around her mouth. But although she stiffened, she did not move. Dorita grasped her arm and shook it violently. “Come here this minute!” Her voice rose shrilly and Juliet struggled to free herself. “Let me go,” she said in a low voice because she did not want to attract undue attention (and there was already an enthusiastic audience gathering). Dorita had no such scruples. “How dare you?” she cried, and losing her head completely she raised the hand that was not gripping Juliet and slapped her full across the face. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by PatMac on Jan 19th, 2004, 9:47am Hooray for the 'Y' Drive! Thanks, Abi. I suppose Juliet's mother was at her wit's end, but poor Juliet. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Alison on Jan 19th, 2004, 9:48am Ohhhhhh! You can see why Juliet acted like she did on arrival at the CS. Poor Juliet. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by KB on Jan 19th, 2004, 9:59am Ooh, golly! I'm surprised she lowered herself so far to slap Juliet, but I can easily imagine it happening. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Vikki on Jan 19th, 2004, 2:19pm Poor Juliet!!! :'( Thank you Abi, and I'm glad the computers are working again!!! *looking forward to the rest!!* |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Sarah_L on Jan 19th, 2004, 2:22pm I'm really enjoying this, and finding out about Juliet's past life. Poor girl. |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Lesley on Jan 19th, 2004, 6:11pm Thank you Abi - it makes Juliet's attitude when she first started at the CS so understandable - she had no reason to believe that any other adult would be different - imagine how she would have turned out if she hadn't gone to the CS? |
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Title: Re: Juliet's Childhood ~ Part three Post by Chloe on Jan 19th, 2004, 6:25pm Yay thnaks Abi, but poor juliet :( |
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