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"They always stan' in front of me, so's I can't get out," he said. "Well, my lad, you've only to ASK them," she replied. "An' then Alfred Winterbottom says, 'What do they teach you at the Board-school?" "They never taught HIM much," said Mrs. Morel, "that is a fact neither manners nor wit and his cunning he was born with." So, in her own way, she soothed him.
He made friends with board-school boys and even errand-boys. One day my mother saw him out in the baker's cart driving it round the neighbourhood. It was a sore humiliation for her, I'm afraid. He didn't care. There were girls, too, even when he was only ten or eleven. Humph! "All this time I was growing up in this sort of life, the life of the professional classes.
"Oh, my principle is to profit by all the benefits that society provides. I take advantage of the age I live in. When I'm ill I get myself patched up in a hospital and I have no false shame, and I send my children to be educated at the board-school." "Do you really?" said Philip. "And a capital education they get too, much better than I got at Winchester.
There were four or five other seniors who had gone through much the same mill, not to mention boys, rejected by other establishments on account of a certain overwhelmingness, whom the Head had wrought into very fair shape. It was not a Sixth to be handled without gloves, as King found. "Am I to understand it is your intention to allow board-school games under your study windows, Flint?
It was a pleasant enough place on this summer afternoon, contrasted with the dingy street whence we had come, though its grass was faded and yellow and the twitter of the birds in the trees mingled with the hideous Board-school drawl of the children who played around the seats and the few remaining tombs. "So this is the last resting-place of the illustrious house of Bellingham," said I.
Arthur was so inflamed and irritable at last, that when he won a scholarship for the Grammar School in Nottingham, his mother decided to let him live in town, with one of her sisters, and only come home at week-ends. Annie was still a junior teacher in the Board-school, earning about four shillings a week.
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