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That very day Fräulein Aennchen made it her business to pack up the tobacco, and she took a dozen of her finest goose-quills to the schoolmaster, to get him to make them into pens. Her intention was to sit down at once and begin her answer to the precious letter.
Whether his excuse would have been sufficient I do not know. He was never asked for it. He came into school just in time to hear old Lovel, the Tory schoolmaster, say, "War's begun and school's done. Dimittite libros" which means, "Put away your books." They put them away, and had a vacation of a year and nine months thereafter, before the school was open again.
'Lurch is a good old English word, let me tell yer, Mr. Schoolmaster that was, he broke in; 'and if I'd done as many a man in my position would, and left you in the lurch a few months ago, where would you ha' been? that's what I'd like to know! For I must tell yer, Mr. Holroyd, that that feller came to me with a precious long face, and says he, "Uncle," he says, "I want you to "
Little do you know what I've got in front of me to-day." "What can it be? You're not going courting an old widow with twelve children, are you?" "If you want to know, I'm going to that schoolmaster fellow, and going to wring my savings-bank book out of him." Louise sat up at this. "My great goodness!" she said.
The curé, while leading away his beadle, reproved them sternly: "Are you mad? Without my permission! Practices forbidden by the Church!" They had all just taken their leave; Bouvard and Pécuchet were talking to the schoolmaster on the hillock, when Marcel rushed from the orchard, the bandage of his chin undone, and stuttered: "Cured! cured! good gentlemen." "All right! enough! Let us alone."
He put his hand on my head, now higher than his shoulder, and said: "I was not looking for you here." He moved his hand down some inches and added: "I was looking for you down there. You can't tell where you'll find these youngsters if you leave them a while." "We are all forever moving," said the schoolmaster. "No man is ever two days in the same altitude unless he's a Whig."
In returning to his native town of Shaston as schoolmaster Phillotson had won the interest and awakened the memories of the inhabitants, who, though they did not honour him for his miscellaneous aquirements as he would have been honoured elsewhere, retained for him a sincere regard.
The vehement struggle for conversion and sense of individual salvation that their teaching deemed the beginning of grace took place, and he turned for aid to them and to his old schoolmaster, Mr. Eyre.
It will take a good deal of schoolmaster to make up for that change. If this be the case, even with the children constantly employed, it can be imagined what kind of a home life is possessed by the children of the tramp, the odd jobber, the thief, and the harlot. For all these people have children, although they have no homes in which to rear them.
He took his place in the procession, and the people saw Schoolmaster Dove taken to school late with a lantern and a bell. The larger schoolboys of that time were very fond of foot races. They would take off their coats and tie handkerchiefs about their heads before starting. The short breeches they wore were fastened at the knee by bands.
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