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I quitted her, taking her message to Heriot: 'You may tell him tell him that I can't write. Heriot frowned on hearing me repeat it. 'Humph! he went, and was bright in a twinkling: 'that means she'll come! He smacked his hands together, grew black, and asked, 'Did she give that beast Boddy a rose? I had to confess she did; and feeling a twinge of my treason to her, felt hers to Heriot.
I was the bearer of a long letter to her that evening. She tore it to pieces without reading it. Next day Heriot walked slowly past Mr. Boddy holding the portrait in his hands. The usher called to him! 'What have you there, Heriot? My hero stared. 'Only a family portrait, he answered, thrusting it safe in his pocket and fixing his gaze on Julia's window. 'Permit me to look at it, said Mr.
'Like a rascal detected in an act of felony, roared Boddy, 'you concealed it, sir . . . 'Conceal it, sir. 'And I demand, in obedience to my duty, that you instantly exhibit it for my inspection, now, here, at once; no parleying; unbutton, or I call Mr. Rippenger to compel you. I was standing close by my brave Heriot, rather trembling, studious of his manfulness though I was.
'Hands off me, said Heriot; 'I can help myself. The youngster 'll help me, and we'll go round to the front door. I hope, sir, you will behave like a gentleman; make no row here, Mr. Boddy, if you've any respect for people inside. We were upset by Mr. Salter's carriage; it's damaged my leg, I believe.
'Yes, said Temple and I, in chorus, 'but you daren't strike Heriot! This was our consolation, and the sentiment of the school. Fancy, then, our amazement to behold him laying the cane on Heriot's shoulders as fiercely as he could, and Boddy seconding him. The scene was terrible.
Both sprang down to seize it: their heads encountered, but Heriot had the quicker hand; he caught the letter, and cried 'Off ! to me, as on another occasion. This time, however, he was not between me and the usher. I was seized by the collar, and shakes roughly. 'You will now understand that you are on a footing with the rest of the boys, you Roy, said Boddy.
Heriot, they thought, might have upset the boat, saved Julia, and drowned Boddy, and given us a feast of pleasurable excitement: instead of which Boddy lived to harass us with his tyrannical impositions and spiteful slaps, and it was to him, not to our Heriot, that Julia was most gracious. Some of us discussed her conduct. 'She's a coquette, said little Temple.
Boddy was begirt with spies, and little Temple reported to Heriot a conversation that he, lying hidden in tall grass, had heard between Boddy and Julia. Boddy asked her to take private lessons in French from him. Heriot listened to the monstrous tale as he was on the point of entering Julia's boat, where Boddy sat beside her, and Heriot rowed stroke-oar.
Such an apple on such a crab-tree seemed monstrous. Heriot said that he hoped Boddy would marry old Rippenger's real daughter, and, said he, that's birch-twigs. I related his sparkling speech to Julia, who laughed, accusing him, however, of impudence. She let me see a portrait of her dead mother, an Irish lady raising dark eyelashes, whom she resembled.
Two or three chairs, I think. Mr. Boddy held forth his stumpy, wrinkled hand. 'Give us a friendly grip, Mr. Ackroyd! There's never a friend in this world but the man as finds you work; that's the philosophy as has come o' my three-score-and-nine years. What's the name and address? I'll be round the first thing on Monday morning. The information was given.
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