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In old times it was the fashion for good men and women to found schools for children where all the children had to wear a particular sort of dress, and some of these were called Blue-coat Schools, and some Green-coat, and some Gray-coat; but they are very different now, and the children don't wear the dress they used to.
"God bless my soul!" said Mr. Richard Avenel. And as he uttered that innocent self-benediction, the woman hastily turned round, and darting from Leonard, threw herself right upon Richard Avenel burying under her embrace blue-coat, moss rose, white waistcoat and all with a vehement sob and a loud exclamation! "Oh! brother Dick! dear, dear brother Dick! And I lives to see thee agin!"
This school is called Christ's Hospital as well as the Blue-coat School, so, you see, here is another instance of the word 'hospital' being used to mean a school or home. In old days the Blue-coat boys used to have a very hard time; their food was bad, and they did not get enough of it, and they ate it off wooden platters.
Rising only to my elbows, and how I did that much, stiffened with my wound, the doctors will have to explain, I laid my cheek to my rifle, and the light of two windows fell upon my gunsights. Every blue-coat in the hall was between me and its rear window, but one besides the officer was wounded, and with these two three others were busy; only the one remaining man saw me.
At that instant a stalwart young man, very angry and with one discolored eye that lent him an uncommonly truculent appearance, looked down on us from the upper hall; then he deliberately ignored the arguing policeman, strode to the head of the stairs and descended to the landing. "It's all right, Callahan," said Stodger to the discomfited blue-coat. The young man halted before us.
Up and down they passed, to and fro, looking and gliding like sheeted ghosts; now dodging policemen, now accosting them familiarly. "Hello, Elise," growled one big blue-coat. "Hello, Jack." "What's this?" and he peered at Mrs. Cresswell, who shrank back. "Friend of mine. All right." A horror crept over Mary Cresswell: where had she lived that she had seen so little before?
Now the Blue-Coat boys are a curiosity to every sight-seer in London and have been for these hundred years and more. Their long-tailed blue coats, buckle-shoes, and absence of either hats or caps bring the Yankee up with a halt. To conduct an American around to the vicinity of Christ's Hospital and let him discover a "Blue-Coat" for himself is a sensation.
He had found the Union officers men of means, if not of such picturesquely martial attributes as their Southern opponents; and while he would not deny his friendship for many a gallant fellow in the rebel gray, neither would he rebuff the blue-coat whose palm was tinged with green.
"God bless my soul!" said Mr. Richard Avenel. And as he uttered that innocent self-benediction, the woman hastily turned round, and darting from Leonard, threw herself right upon Richard Avenel burying under her embrace blue-coat, moss rose, white waistcoat and all with a vehement sob and a loud exclamation! "Oh! brother Dick! dear, dear brother Dick! And I lives to see thee agin!"
This night Sir R. Ford told me how this day, at Christ church Hospital, they have given a living of 200l. per annum to Mr. Sanchy, my old acquaintance, which I wonder at, he commending him mightily; but am glad of it. He tells me too how the famous Stillingfleete was a Blue-coat boy. 18th.
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