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There was once in a certain village a weaver who worked hard but could not earn his living save by overwork. Now it chanced that one of the richards of the neighbourhood made a marriage feast and invited the folk thereto: the weaver also was present and found the guests, who wore rich gear, served with delicate viands and made much of by the house-master for what he saw of their fine clothes.
But there was a world of difference between the effect these visits had now and that which they had had when Kennedy had stood alone in the house, his hand against all men. Now that he could work off the effects of such encounters by going straight to Fenn's study and picking the house-master to pieces, the latter's peculiar methods ceased to be irritating, and became funny.
Apart from any other reasons, he had only been in his brother's seat for half-a-dozen seconds. No. He was all right so far. But he would have to get back to the house, and at once. With three of the staff, including his own house-master, ranging the town, things were a trifle too warm for comfort.
I expect Fenn had it out with him when they got indoors. What a beastly shame, though." "Beastly," agreed Jimmy Silver. "Still, it can't be helped. The sins of the house-master are visited on the house. I'm afraid it will be our painful duty to wipe the floor with Kay's this day. Speaking at a venture, I should say that we have got them where the hair's short. Yea.
Left to himself, Prout would have made a sympathetic house-master; but he was never so left, and with the devilish insight of youth, the boys knew to whom they were indebted for his zeal. "Must we go down, sir? said McTurk. "I don't want to order you to do what a right-thinking boy should do gladly. I'm sorry."
The power of the house-master even apart from the fact that it appeared in operation only within the house was of a transient, and in some degree of a representative, character.
The next thing was to find out which of them was about the same height as Mr Seymour. It was a somewhat vague description, for the house-master stood about five feet nine or eight, and a good many of the dormitory were that height, or near it. At last, after much brain-work, he reduced the number of "possibles" to seven.
Afterwards Warde remembered this impassivity. "If I do not act" Warde's voice trembled "I am damned as a traitor in my own eyes." John had never doubted that his house-master would act. As for creeping and crawling, can peaks be scaled without creeping and crawling? Never "You are not to speak a word of warning," Warde continued vehemently.
"You will have guessed," said that letter, when it arrived, "from my telegram that Moss has resigned, and that there will be a vacancy for a house-master and Master of the Shell here at Christmas. You know how I would like to see you appointed. But " "But what?" inquired someone who read the letter over the reader's shoulder.
Duff looked unhappy and ill at ease, because it was almost certain that his last sentence had been overheard by the house-master. The duchess asked a few questions and then took her leave. She and her son were dining with the Head Master. Rutford accompanied her. "Did the blighter hear?" said Duff. "How could he help it with his enormous asses' ears?" said the tall thin Egerton.
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