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The little fellows had scrambled to their feet, and after a frightened glance set up wails of lamentation in which the word padrone recurred fast and fearfully. By that time Master Brench, with the older pupils, among whom were my cousins, Addison, Theodora and Ellen, had come out.
"Ferule both my hands, Mr. Brench! Ferule me all you want to! I don't care how hard you strike! But you are a bad, cruel man, and I hate you!" Still holding the ruler, Czar Brench gazed at her for some moments in silence; he seemed almost dazed. "You are the first scholar that ever spoke to me like that," he said at last.
Turning away, he said, "The girls may now have their recess." To this day I remember just how those terrified girls stole out from the schoolroom. Not until they had come in from their recess and had taken their seats did Master Brench again turn his attention to the pile of boys. He walked round it with his face wreathed in smiles. "Like as not that floor is hard," he remarked.
" Coplen says she is now calling herself Mrs. Brench Wybert or some such name. I just thought I'd tell you in case you might run acrost her and " "Come along, old chap," urged Milbrey; "Mrs. Wybert will be waiting." His father had started off with Psyche. Mrs. Bines and Mrs. Drelmer were preparing to follow. "I beg your pardon," said Percival, "I didn't quite catch the name." "I say Mrs.
During the fifth week of school there was an enforced vacation of three or four days, over Sunday, while the school committee were investigating certain complaints of abusive punishment, against Master Brench.
Lance took a turn about the room, but with his eyes still on his host. 'How awfully always you must have liked her! 'Awfully. Always, said Peter Brench. The young man continued for a moment to muse then stopped again in front of him.
Feruling with the ruler was for ordinary, miscellaneous offenses; but Czar Brench had more picturesque punishments for the six or seven "deadly sins." If you dropped a book, he would instantly cry, "Pick up that book and fetch it to me!" Then, when you came forward, he would say, "Take it in your right hand. Face the school.
Wybert and mother will be waiting come along!" "What name?" "Wybert Mrs. Brench Wybert my friend what's the matter?" "We can't go; that is we can't meet her. Sis, come back a moment," he called to Psyche, and then: "I want a word with you and your father, Milbrey."
Looking about therefore at such short notice, the school agent was led to hire a master, widely noted as a disciplinarian, named Nathaniel Brench, who for years had borne the nickname of "Czar" Brench, owing to his autocratic and cruel methods of school government.
"Of course I'm sure; she's the widow of a Southern gentleman, Colonel Brench Wybert, from New Orleans." "Yes, the same woman. There is no doubt that you have been imposed upon. The thing to do is to drop her quick she isn't right." "In what way has my family been imposed upon, Mr. Bines?" asked the elder Milbrey, somewhat perturbed; "Mrs. Wybert is a lady of family and large means "
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