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Updated: May 11, 2025
The next Saturday afternoon was fine, so the swimmers went to the river with the assistant-master, and I was very politely invited to accompany them. On this an older boy, who had always been kind to me, said privately, "You can't swim, I know you can't, and you'd better confess it, for if you don't, you run a good chance of being drowned this afternoon; the water is thirty feet deep."
From the first they had been drawn together; they were searching in an eager way for the same object; they had both been at a public school and once, when Shafto dropped a word about Sandhurst, Roscoe said: "I was intended for the Army, but I couldn't pass the doctor rather a facer after scraping through the exam.; when that was knocked on the head, I got a post as assistant-master, but I couldn't stick it for more than a couple of years; after that, I was in a newspaper office; then I got badly stage-struck and went on the boards.
'It's absolutely necessary that I should be here. 'And that I should. She considered me for a moment. 'Mrs Attwell told me that you were one of the assistant-masters at the school. 'I am acting as assistant-master. I am supposed to be learning the business. She hesitated. 'Why? she said. 'Why not? 'But but you used to be very well off. 'I'm better off now. I'm working.
'Then your best plan would undoubtedly be to consider yourself and work for a time simply as an ordinary assistant-master. You would thus get a sound knowledge of the intricacies of the profession which would stand you in good stead when you decide to set up your own school. School-mastering is a profession, which cannot be taught adequately except in practice.
No doubt a good deal was done to make the externals of the place alluring to those parents who love to think that their boys shall be made happy at school. Attached to the school, forming part of the building, is a pleasant, well-built residence, with six or eight rooms, intended for the senior or classical assistant-master.
They all clamoured, as we entered, to the assistant-master, who accompanied us, 'Look at me, Mr. Hart! Please, Mr.
It was not unlike his attempt to marry Mrs. Orr. But his piety was more genuine, and this time he never came to the point. His sense of decency forbade him hurrying into a Church that he reverenced. Moreover, he thought of another solution: Agnes must marry Rickie in the Christmas holidays, and they must come, both of them, to Sawston, she as housekeeper, he as assistant-master.
He was certainly exhibiting his various gifts in rapid order, This, I took it, was what Mr Abney had called 'expressing himself in a curious manner'. 'And don't swear, I said. We eyed each other narrowly for the space of some seconds. 'Who are you? he demanded. I introduced myself. 'What do you want to come butting in for? 'I am paid to butt in. It's the main duty of an assistant-master.
There is no need to say why I became assistant-master and professor of the English and French languages, flower-painting, and the German flute, in Doctor Birch's Academy, at Rodwell Regis. Good folks may depend on this, that it was not for CHOICE that I left lodgings near London, and a genteel society, for an under-master's desk in that old school.
He was not fond of village society. On the following morning, at eight o'clock, my work began. My first day had the effect of entirely revolutionizing what ideas I possessed of the lot of the private-school assistant-master. My view, till then, had been that the assistant-master had an easy time. I had only studied him from the outside.
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