[identity profile] gardnerhill.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] sherlock60
Title: The Three Students: So Painful A Scandal
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: The Victorian-school definition, that is.

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My friend read the headmaster’s incident book. “Two lads setting a lower form on fire.”

Soames hand-waved. “Good wholesome character-building.”

“Four deaths due to hazing last year. An upper-form’s servant boy beaten nearly to death.” Holmes fixed Soames with a stare. “But a student looking at an exam paper –“

“Is a scandal from which St. Luke may never recover!”

Date: 2017-09-03 02:19 pm (UTC)
ext_1789368: okapi (Default)
From: [identity profile] okapi1895.livejournal.com
Ouch. Yeah, academically pure, never mind the sticks and stones, worry about the Words!

Date: 2017-09-03 04:26 pm (UTC)
debriswoman: (cat and mouse)
From: [personal profile] debriswoman
Painful, but perhaps more accurate than you would hope.

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