Tom and Some Other Girls - A Public School Story

Project Gutenberg's Tom and Some Other Girls, by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story Author: Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey Illustrator: Percy Tarrant Release Date: April 16, 2007 [EBook #21102] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOM AND SOME OTHER GIRLS *** Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey "Tom and some other Girls" Chapter One. A Change. “Yes, she must go to school!” repeated Mr Chester. A plaintive sob greeted his words from the neighbourhood of the sofa. For once in her life Mrs Chester’s kindly, good-tempered face had lost its smiles, and was puckered up into lines of distress. She let one fat, be-ringed hand drop to her side and wander restlessly over the satin skirt in search of a pocket. Presently out came a handkerchief, which was applied to each eye in turn, and came away bedewed with tears. “It will break my heart to part from her!” she faltered. Her husband laughed with masculine scepticism. “Oh, nonsense, dear,” he said; “hearts are not so easily broken.