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It takes the house-masters off their work, and it gives the prefects a heap too much power, an' an' it rots up everything. You see, it isn't as if we were just an ordinary school. We take crammers' rejections as well as good little boys like Stalky. We've got to do that to make our name, of course, and we get 'em into Sandhurst somehow or other, don't we?" "True, O Turk.
Prout, and the Head, of course, are the only masters senior to us in that way." "Yes, we've changed a good deal in Common-room." "Huh!" said Beetle with a grunt. "They came here, an' they went away to get married. Jolly good riddance, too!" "Doesn't our Beetle hold with matrimony?" "No, Padre; don't make fun of me. I've met chaps in the holidays who've got married house-masters.
"It is just possible, my Beetle," King wheeled on the last speaker, "that the house-masters a necessary but somewhat neglected factor in our humble scheme of existence may have a word to say on the matter. Life, for the young at least, is not all weapons and munitions of war. Education is incidentally one of our aims." "What a consistent pig he is," cooed McTurk, when they were out of earshot.
It is abominable, Fenn." He wheeled round towards the head of the house. "Fenn, I am surprised at you standing here and allowing such a disgraceful disturbance to go on. Really, if you cannot keep order better It is disgraceful, disgraceful." Mr Kay shot out of the room. Fenn followed in his wake, and the procession made its way to the house-masters' study.
It's perfectly awful! They have babies and teething and measles and all that sort of thing right bung in the school; and the masters' wives give tea-parties tea-parties, Padre! and ask the chaps to breakfast." "That don't matter so much," said Stalky. "But the house-masters let their houses alone, and they leave everything to the prefects.
He had lost his watch, his cap with his name in it was in the hands of an evil old man who evidently bore him a grudge, and he had to run the gauntlet of three house-masters and get to bed via a study-window. Few people, even after the dullest of plays, have returned from the theatre so disgusted with everything as did Fenn.
However, Prout and King don't approve of dormitory gatherings on this scale, and one must back up the house-masters. Moreover, it's hopeless to punish two houses only, so late in the term. We must be fair and include everybody. Let's see. They have a holiday task for the Easters, which, of course, none of them will ever look at.
Grimstone really did arrive at this point, much to Paul's relief, and looked in to give a grip of the hand and a few words to those of the boys he had not seen. Biddlecomb, Tipping, and the rest, came in with him, and the schoolroom soon filled with others arriving by later trains, amongst the later comers being the two house-masters, Mr. Blinkhorn and Mr.
"You've been bothering Mr. Prout," he said pensively. "House-masters aren't here to be bothered by boys more than is necessary. I don't like being bothered by these things. You are bothering me. That is a very serious offense. You see it?" "Yes, sir." "Well, now, I purpose to bother you, on personal and private grounds, because you have broken into my time.
They had dropped into the chaplain's study for a Saturday night smoke -all four house-masters and the three briars and the one cigar reeking in amity proved the Rev. John Gillett's good generalship.
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