[The Prelude to Adventure by Hugh Walpole]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prelude to Adventure CHAPTER X 1/30
CRAVEN 1 That evening Olva was elected President of the Wolves.
It was a ceremony conducted with closed doors and much drinking of wine, by a committee of four and the last reigning President who had the casting vote.
The College waited in suspense and at eleven o'clock it was understood that Dune had been elected. According to custom, on the day following in "Hall" Olva would be cheered by the assembled undergraduates whilst the gods on the dais smiled gently and murmured that "boys will be boys." Meanwhile the question that agitated the Sauline world was the way that Cardillac would take it.
"If it had been any one else but Dune.
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