"Jones, Diana Wynne - Chrestomanci 3 - 1982 - Witch Week" - читать интересную книгу автора (Jones Diana Wynne)

Here Mr. Crossley looked at Charles Morgan and Charles Morgan looked back, with
one of the blank, nasty looks he was famous for. Charles wore glasses, which
enlarged the nasty look and trained it on Mr. Crossley like a double laser beam.
Mr. Crossley looked away hastily and went back to worrying about the note.
Everyone in 6B gave up hoping for anything interesting to happen and went back
to their journals.
28 October 1981, Theresa Mullett wrote in round, angelic writing. Mr. Crossley
has found a note in our geography books. I thought it might be from Miss Hodge
at first, because we all know Teddy is dying for love of her, but he looks so
worried that I think it must be from some silly girl like Estelle Green. Nan
Pilgrim couldn't get over the vaulting horse again today. She jumped and stuck
halfway. It made us all laugh.
Simon Silverson wrote: 28. 10. 81. I would like to know who put that note in the
geography books. It fell out when I was collecting them and I put it back in. If
it was found lying about we could all be blamed. This is strictly off the record
of course.
I do not know, Nirupam Singh wrote musingly, how anyone manages to write much in
their journal, since everyone knows Miss Cadwallader reads them all during the
holidays. I do not write my secret thoughts. I will now describe the Indian rope
trick which I saw in India before my father came to live in England...
Two desks away from Nirupam, Dan Smith chewed his pen a great deal and finally
wrote, Well I mean it's not much good if you've got to write your secret
fealings, what I mean is it takes all the joy out of it and you don't know what
to write. It means they aren't secret if you see what I mean.
I do not think, Estelle Green wrote, that I have any secret feelings today, but
I would like to know what is in the note from Miss Hodge that Teddy has just
found. I thought she scorned him utterly.
At the back of the room, Brian Wentworth wrote, sighing, Timetables just ran
away with me, that is my problem. During geography I planned a bus journey from
London to Baghdad via Paris. Next lesson I shall plan the same journey via
Berlin.
Nan Pilgrim meanwhile was scrawling, This is a message to the person who reads
our journals. Are you Miss Cadwallader, or does Miss Cadwallader make Mr.
Wentworth do it? She stared at what she had written, rather taken aback at her
own daring. This kind of thing happened to her sometimes. Still, she thought,
there were hundreds of journals and hundreds of daily entries. The chances of
Miss Cadwallader reading this one had to be very smallЧparticularly if she went
on and made it really boring. I shall now be boring, she wrote. Teddy Crossley's
real name is Harold, but he got called Teddy out of the hymn that goes "Gladly
my cross I'd bear." But of course everyone sings "Crossley my glad-eyed bear. "
Mr. Crossley is glad-eyed. He thinks everyone should be upright and honorable
and interested in geography. I am sorry for him.
But the one who was best at making his journal boring was Charles Morgan. His
entry read, I got up. I felt hot at breakfast. I do not like porridge. Second
lesson was woodwork but not for long. I think we have games next.
Looking at this, you might think Charles was either very stupid or very muddled,
or both. Anyone in 6B would have told you that it had been a chilly morning and
there had been cornflakes for breakfast. Second lesson had been PE, during which
Nan Pilgrim had so much amused Theresa Mullett by failing to jump the horse, and
the lesson to come was music, not games. But Charles was not writing about the