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Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times of our lives. I looked at her earnestly. 'When you came away from home at the end of the vacation, said Mrs. Creakle, after a pause, 'were they all well? After another pause, 'Was your mama well?
'He is right, sir, without correction, returned Mr. Mell, in the midst of a dead silence; 'what he has said is true. 'Be so good then as declare publicly, will you, said Mr. Creakle, putting his head on one side, and rolling his eyes round the school, 'whether it ever came to my knowledge until this moment? 'I believe not directly, he returned. 'Why, you know not, said Mr. Creakle.
Creakle was in earnest, or only meant to frighten me, I don't know, but he made a burst out of his chair, before which I precipitately retreated, and never once stopped until I reached my own bedroom, where, finding I was not pursued, I went to bed, and lay quaking for a couple of hours. The next day the other masters and the scholars began to arrive.
Creakle. I cannot think I was a very dangerous character in any of these aspects, but in all of them I carried the same warning on my back. Mr. Mell never said much to me, but he was never harsh to me. I suppose we were company to each other, without talking.
Sharp. 'There's time enough, my boy, don't hurry. I might have been surprised by the feeling tone in which he spoke, if I had given it a thought; but I gave it none until afterwards. I hurried away to the parlour; and there I found Mr. Creakle, sitting at his breakfast with the cane and a newspaper before him, and Mrs. Creakle with an opened letter in her hand. But no hamper.
Creakle, with the veins in his forehead swelling quickly. 'Who talked about favourites? 'He did, said Steerforth. 'And pray, what did you mean by that, sir? demanded Mr. Creakle, turning angrily on his assistant. 'I meant, Mr. Creakle, he returned in a low voice, 'as I said; that no pupil had a right to avail himself of his position of favouritism to degrade me. 'To degrade YOU? said Mr.
'No, sir, no, returned the Master, showing his face, and shaking his head, and rubbing his hands in great agitation. 'No, sir. No. I have remembered myself, I no, Mr. Creakle, I have not forgotten myself, I I have remembered myself, sir. I I could wish you had remembered me a little sooner, Mr. Creakle. It it would have been more kind, sir, more just, sir. It would have saved me something, sir.
With a good deal more of that sort, which I wondered how they knew. I heard that the man with the wooden leg, whose name was Tungay, was an obstinate barbarian who had formerly assisted in the hop business, but had come into the scholastic line with Mr. Creakle, in consequence, as was supposed among the boys, of his having broken his leg in Mr.
Mell's hand gently patted me upon the shoulder. I looked up with a flush upon my face and remorse in my heart, but Mr. Mell's eyes were fixed on Steerforth. He continued to pat me kindly on the shoulder, but he looked at him. 'Since you expect me, Mr. Creakle, to justify myself, said Steerforth, 'and to say what I mean, what I have to say is, that his mother lives on charity in an alms-house.
Him the Irish see, see him only too much and too often" and to see him is to dislike him, and the country which sent him forth. Is there not a touch of Murdstone and Creakle in the present dealings of Parliament with Ireland? Forces greater than that of Salem House have decreed that Ireland is to have self-government, and have converted for the astonishment of after-ages Mr.
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