The Professor
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You are Crimsworth, the new English master at a Brussels boys' school, taking on a second post across the garden wall at Mlle Reuter's establishment, where a hundred pupils test you before they learn your name. Among the staff sits Frances Henri, an underpaid lace-mender who studies English on her own time and quietly outdoes the class. You praise her work aloud; Reuter objects in private. By the next lesson Frances's desk is empty, her post ended, and no one will give you her address.
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- The Empty DeskA Brussels School