Word: poethood
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...sanatorium in which 12-year-old Halcyon can recover from her fantastic poethood, Capt. Day chooses his sister Madge's strictly common-or-garden English home. Here everybody tries to help her "find her own level," "cut her corners off" by making her "knock about" with other children. But Halcyon refuses to be either comforted or tamed. Her sophistication is more than a pose. Her tweedy, game-crazy playmates she finds hopelessly dull. Then suddenly, while moping one day in the ruins of Beaulieu Abbey, she meets Eden Herring...
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