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Blinkhorn would disbelieve him, and, with the boys, he felt that the truth would do anything but increase his popularity. But dissembling fails sometimes outside the copy-books, and Mr. Bultitude's rather blundering attempt at it only landed him in worse difficulties.
At last he said, "But you know the Doctor would never allow animals to be kept in the school, if Bultitude had brought them. The whole thing is against the rules, and I shall not interfere." "Ah, but," said Chawner, "he promised them all to day-boarders. The Doctor couldn't object to that, could he, sir?" "True," said Mr. Blinkhorn, "true. I was not aware of that.
He tried to stammer out excuses. "It's extremely unfortunate," he said, "but the fact is I'm not in a position to meet this this sudden call upon me. Some other day, perhaps " "None of your long words, now," growled Tipping. "Yes," said Mr. Blinkhorn. "Why, having promised to bring the rabbits with you, haven't you kept your word? You must be able to give some explanation." "Because," said Mr.
Two of the younger boys, proud of their office, raced down to the further end to set up the goal-posts. At last Tipping suggested that they had better begin, and proposed that Mr. Blinkhorn and himself should toss up for the choice of sides, and this being done, Mr. Bultitude presently, to his great dismay, heard his name mentioned.
Blinkhorn was not disposed to be too exacting with a boy who in one short morning had endured a sentence of expulsion, a lecture, the immediate prospect of a flogging, and a paternal visit, and, as before, mercifully left him alone.
Then he said aloud to Tom, "Can you tell me, my my young friend, if, supposing a boy were to ask to leave the field saying for instance that he was not well and thought he should be better at home whether he would be allowed to go?" "Of course he would," said Tom, "you ought to know that by this time. You've only to ask Blinkhorn or Tinkler; they'll let you go right enough."
"This is too much!" he cried "you shall not palm off that miserable rubbish on me. I see through it. It's a plot to keep me here, and you're in it. It's false imprisonment, and I'll write to the Times. I'll expose the whole thing!" "This violence is only ridiculous," said Mr. Blinkhorn. "If I were not too pained by it, I should feel it my duty to report your language to the Doctor.
"That young man over there on the rails," said Paul. "I am the proper person to apply to for leave; you know that well enough," said Mr. Blinkhorn, with a certain coldness in his tone. "Now then, Porter, what is all this business about?"
Leave him to me." "Will you see fair play between them, sir? He oughtn't to be let off without being made to keep his word." "If there is any dispute between you and Bultitude," said Mr. Blinkhorn, "I have no objection to settle it provided it is within my province." "Settle it without me," said Paul hurriedly. "I've leave to go home. I'm ill." "Who gave you leave to go home?" asked the master.
You may be a very excellent young man, but if you gloss over things in that fashion, your moral sense must be perverted, sir strangely perverted." "There were faults on both sides, I fear," said Mr. Blinkhorn, growing a little scandalised by the boy's odd warmth of expression. "I have heard something of what you had to bear with.
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