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to have the world just so. Whereas her big sister's
Line room was a stew of unclosed books, unfolded clothes,unmade bed, unemptied ashtrays, Briony's was a
shrine to her controlling demon: the model farm
spread across a deep window ledge consisted of the
usual animals, but all facing one way-toward their
owner--as if about to break into song, and even the
farmyard hens were neatly corralled. In fact, Briony's
1o was the only tidy upstairs room in the house. Her
straight-backed dolls in their many-roomed mansion
appeared to be under strict instructions not to touch
the walls: the various thumb-sized figures to be found
standing about her dressing table--cowboys, deep
sea divers, humanoid mice--suggested by their even
ranks and spacing a citizen's army awaiting orders.
A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit. Another was a passion for secrets: in a prized varnished cabinet, a secret drawer was opened by pushing against the grain of a cleverly turned dovetail joint, and here she kept a diary locked by a clasp, and a notebook written in a code of her own invention. In a toy safe opened by six secret numbers she stored letters and postcards. An old tin petty cash box was hidden under a removable floorboard beneath her bed. In the box were treasures that dated back four years, to her ninth birthday when she began collecting: a mutant double acorn, fool's gold, a rainmaking spell bought at a funfair, a squirrels skull light as a leaf.
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