[The Luckiest Girl in the School by Angela Brazil]@TWC D-Link bookThe Luckiest Girl in the School CHAPTER II 16/27
She collected her wits now, and did the very utmost of which she was capable in the matter of style. Choosing question No.
4, "Write a life of Lady Jane Grey," she proceeded to treat the subject in as post-impressionist a manner as possible.
The pathetic tragedy of the young Queen had always appealed to her imagination, and she could have had no more congenial a theme upon which to write, if she had been given free choice of all the characters in the history book. "'Whom the gods love die young,'" she began, and paused.
It seemed an excellent opening, if she could only continue in the same strain, but what ought to come next? Her thoughts flew to a painting of Lady Jane Grey, which she had once seen at a loan collection of Tudor portraits. Why should she not describe it? Her pen flew rapidly as she wrote a word-picture of the sweet, pale face, so round and childish in spite of its earnest expression; the smooth yellow hair, the gray eyes bent demurely over the book.
Her heroine seemed beginning to live.
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