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Parr, one of the under-masters, wrote to Sheridan's biographer the following expression of opinion: 'There was little in his boyhood worth communication.
"I may say I felt extremely uncomfortable during the process of introduction, and was glad when it all ended; for what with eyes, and the being called 'quite a hero, and 'a darling brave boy, and so on ad infinitum, I experienced as queer sensations, as if I had been birched by Price, or one of the under-masters.
I assisted several fair ladies to their hats and shawls, and then went back to Ascot House to enact all the scenes over again in my dreams." As Hall finished his story, the room door opened and one of the under-masters entered to ascertain if the boys were in bed and the lights out. "What! not asleep yet, boys?" he exclaimed, as he heard some one commenting on the story.
"The workmen in the mines and the founderies are, indeed, all called master-people; but they distinguish themselves into masters, under-masters, apprentices, delvers, servants, carriers, washers, and separators. In proportion to their ability their wages are regulated, which proceed from fifteen to upwards of thirty roubles per annum.
Tom came up from his desk, showing some agitation, and looked at the master. "You will allow me to go, sir? I can do no good at my lessons in this suspense." "Yes," replied the master. He was going himself. The school rose with one accord. The under-masters rose.
Hoxton boasted to the under-masters that the school had never been in such good order as under Anderson, little guessing that this was but reaping the fruits of a past victory, or that every boy in the whole school gave the highest place in their esteem to the deposed dux.
There is not space to enter into the particulars of the affair; it is sufficient to say that some underhand work, touching cribs, came to the knowledge of one of the under-masters and came to him through Charley Channing. Not that Charley went, open-mouthed, and told; there was nothing of that disreputable character which the school held in especial dislike the sneak, about Charles Channing.
Without replying to the outburst, the Doctor touched a bell which stood on the table, and a junior waiting outside entered. "Tell Mr. Wire and Mr. Richards I wish to speak to them." Not a word was spoken in the library until the under-masters entered. A thousand thoughts passed rapidly through Frank's brain.
This consisted of a large, long room at opposite ends of which two under-masters conducted the second and third forms, and of a smaller one, leading out of it, used by Mr. Watson, who taught the first form. To attach the preparatory to the senior school these three classes were known officially, on speech days and in reports, as upper, middle, and lower second. Philip was put in the last.
"Tempus fugit that is to say, we have no time to waste. So, marry, boy, venite, exultemus in other words, if thou canst sing, be up and at it. Come, cantate sing, I bid thee, and that instanter if thou canst sing at all." The under-masters and monitors were pushing the boys into their seats. Carew pointed to the stage.
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