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There was a suspicious hubbub and hum of voices from within; but as they entered every boy was bent over his books with the rapt absorption of the devoted student an absorption that was the direct effect of the sound the door-handle made in turning. "Our workshop," said the Doctor airily, looking round. "My first form, Mr. Bultitude. Some good workers here, and some idle ones."
So I have nourished one more viper in my bosom, have I? A crawling reptile which curries favour by denouncing the very crime it conceals in its playbox! Bultitude, I was not prepared for such duplicity as this!" "I I swear I never put them in!" protested the unhappy Paul. "I I never touch such things: they would bring on my gout in half-an-hour. It's ridiculous to punish me.
Bultitude lost what little temper he had yet to lose; he flung the useless purse from him and broke away from them all in a condition little removed from insanity. Leave the field! What a mockery the permission was now. How was he to get home, a distance of more than fifty miles, without a penny in his pocket?
Well, it was better to be prepared and know the worst. "Bultitude says, just like a great awkward schoolboy, y'know, 'What's your name? How d'ye do? Have some hardbake, it's just done? Fancy finding a man in his position cooking toffee in the middle of the day, and offering it to a perfect stranger!" "Softening of the brain must be," said the other. "I fear so.
Bultitude; "say it out at once; it will make no difference to me, I give you warning!" "Oh, yes it will, though. I think it will. Wait. I heard all you said to Grimstone in the study to-day about that girl Connie Davenant, you know." "I don't care; I am innocent. I have nothing to reproach myself with." "What a liar you are!" said Chawner, more in admiration than rebuke.
"Yes, it will," said Chawner irritably, "it will you mayn't mean to tell of anyone but yourself; but directly Grimstone asks you questions, it all comes out. I know all about it. And, anyway, I forbid you to go up till I give you leave." "And who the dooce are you?" said Mr. Bultitude, nettled at this assumption of authority. "How are you going to prevent me, may I ask?"
Bultitude sat staring stupidly at it with a faint sick feeling it had passed the quarter now why did the Doctor delay in this unwarrantable manner? What a farce social civilities were if he had allowed himself to be prevailed on to stay to supper!
Bultitude; and permit me to say, that such a tone of treating the affair is apt to destroy the effect, the excellent moral effect, of your most impressively conveyed indignation just now. I merely give you a hint, you understand!" "Oh, ah," said Dick, feeling that he had made a mistake, "yes, I didn't mean that. But I say, you haven't given him a a whopping yet, have you?"
Burdekin," said the Doctor: "quite right. I am sorry that any boy of mine should have caused you to do so. You are again beginning your career of disorder and rebellion, are you, sir? Go up into the schoolroom at once, and write a dozen copies before tea-time! A very little more eccentricity and insubordination from you, Bultitude, and you will reap a full reward a full reward, sir!" So Mr.
Bultitude found, when it came to the point, that it was almost impossible for him to screw up his courage to run away.
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