The Velvet Chair
I.The bell rang at St. Jude's Academy like a sentence being pronounced. Clara Ashworth sat in the third row, spine straight, hands folded in her lap, and tried not to breathe too loudly. The assembly hall held three hundred girls in navy blazers and white collars, all of them whispering in the manner of people who had been taught to whisper since they could walk.On the dais sat the velvet chair...
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