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But Miss Margaret, at least, was safe from the School Board's wrath and indignation, and how unimportant, compared with that, was her own soul's salvation! "Why didn't Tillie say it was yourn?" Mr. Getz presently found voice to ask. "I tole her if she left it get put out I am addicted to novel readin'," said the doctor glibly, and with evident relish, "it might spoil my practice some.
"'I'll leave it in the Board's hands, I said, 'if two hunder an' eighty-seven pound is anything beyond right and reason for eight months. I might ha' saved my breath, for the Board was new since the last election, an' there they sat, the damned deevidend-huntin' ship-chandlers, deaf as the adders o' Scripture. "'We must keep faith wi' the public, said young Steiner.
But practically no public funds had been regularly given; hence the Board's control automatically ceased. It is unnecessary to follow here the Governors' subtle reasoning.
Get away with you. The plain deal board's good enough for me. And, moreover, I doubt very much if I've the money to do it, if I were ever so willing. I'm afraid to look into my purse to count the few coppers that's left in it after paying that murdering bill in the hotel you took me to. Gresham, indeed!
The north corridor is all charity old ladies, paid for out o' the fund; an' the president o' the home has just died, an' the secretary's in the old country on a pleasure trip, an' the board's in a row over the policy o' the home, an' the navy-blue matron dassent act, an' altogether it looked like the north corridor was goin' to get a regular mid-week Wednesday instead of a Christmas.
In June the Board's Committee wrote again to the Governor-General, stating that if the Charter were amended according to the draft prepared "McGill College would speedily be relieved from the difficulties by which it has been so long surrounded."
The Board's remark is as follows: after controverting some of the facts, they say, "That his countries are oppressed is most certain, but not from real necessity; his debts, indeed, have afforded him a constant pretence for using severities and cruel oppressions."
“What do you feel you can pay? We want you should have some money left each week after your board's paid. What do you make at the bleachery?” My conscience fidgeted within me a bit at that. “I'd rather you charged me just what you think the room and board are worth to you, not what you think I can pay.” “Well, we used to get eight dollars a week for room and board. It's worth that.”
There is them that's glad enough to go to the Museum, when tickets is given 'em; but some of 'em ha'n't had a ticket sence Cenderilla was played, and now he must be offerin' 'em to this ridiculous young paintress, or whatever she is, that's come to make more mischief than her board's worth.
"I'm goin' to school, and I'm goin' here," he said at last. That was defiance of the board's authority, and the lawyer a young man threw off his coat and tried to eject the unruly pupil from the room; but to his chagrin he was himself ejected, with considerable damage to his legal raiment.
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