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MARGARET OTTLEY FLUCK was into her forty-fist year of life, but she had\nbeen thirty eight years of age for the past three years⦠She was\nwell aware the she was no oil panting, but as with most women, she\nconsidered she had something in her make up and appearance that might\nattract a man into her life. She knew that her name was hardly\nsomething that would attract anyone and she dropped the name FLUCK for\nobvious reasons when she became a school teacher and was in charge of\nan army of five to six year old boys⦠and adopted the name PEGGOTY\ninstead of Margaret because to her that sounded much more feminine,\nalthough her greatest interest outside of her teaching was motor\nmechanics and she proved she could master that task as well as any man.\nPeggoty loved all the children she taught, but there was one little boy\nwho attracted her more than the others named BENJAMIN SCHOFIELD⦠Ben as\nshe called him and when Benâs parents were killed in a road accident\nand Ben had to go into an orphanage, Peggoty took him on holidays and\nvisits to her cottage by the sea. She never scolded her pupils harshly,\nbut would pat them on the bum and tell them to ârun away laughingâ\nThat always did the trick.\n\n |
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