Nurse Turner's a beast--a _beast_--a BEAST!" Corona's face whitened, and her voice shrilled higher at each repetition.
"-- She hates Branny like poison, and I hate _her_.

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There! And now you must take and punish me as much as you please.
What's it going to be ?" She rocked her small body as she looked up with straight eyes, awaiting sentence.
"You are to go to bed at once, and without any supper," said Brother Copas, keeping his voice steady on the words he loathed to utter.
Again Corona seemed to weigh them.
"That seems fair enough," she decided.