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Creakle then caned Tommy Traddles for being discovered in tears, instead of cheers, and went away leaving us to ourselves. Steerforth was very angry with Traddles, and said he was glad he had caught it. Poor Traddles, who had passed the stage of lying with his head upon the desk, and was relieving himself as usual with a burst of skeletons, said he didn't care. Mr. Mell was ill-used.
The dark mark of fate and doom was on the threshold the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry. The absent lord's children meanwhile prattled and grew on quite unconscious that the doom was over them too. First they talked of their father and devised plans against his return. Then the name of the living dead man was less frequently in their mouth then not mentioned at all.
"I I couldn't bear it," he cried; "I tried so hard so cruel said he was to break my spirit that I was bad he beat me seven times I did try you wanted me to Miss Grayson wanted me to I was always trying punished me because so stupid but I tried I took a bit of candle I was trying to learn the piece the other boys were asleep he came up he caned me till I till I couldn't bear it break my spirit he said he'd break it I dropped from the window fell down and sprained my ankle but I walked back here then I was afraid to tell you, and I hid up there."
A teacher with the appropriate name of Slatter set him hard tasks and caned him unmercifully for every shortcoming. A weaker nature would have been crushed. Reade's was toughened, and he learned to resist pain and to resent wrong, so that hatred of injustice has been called his dominating trait. In preparing himself for college he was singularly fortunate in his tutors.
I remember, Joseph interrupted, that the Master answered you all saying that every chair had been made and caned and cushioned before the world was. You can't have forgotten, Peter, this saying: that every one would find a chair according to his measure? Yes, Master, he did say something like that.
Carnaby's nose which made everybody sorry now for Dale: but everybody started, Mr. Carnaby and all, at Mr. Tooke's voice, close at hand. How much he had seen and heard, there was no knowing; but it was enough to make him look extremely stern. "Are these boys not caned yet, Mr. Carnaby?" "No, sir; I have not I " "Have they been standing here all this while?" "Yes, sir. I have no cane, sir.
Dick was a most unwilling witness, but he produced the notebook in which he had daily jotted down the number of boys caned, and swore to the general accuracy of the figures. Mr. Wakefield then asked the magistrates if they would like to hear any further witnesses as to the state of things in the schoolroom. They said that what they had heard was quite sufficient.
General Jackson publicly caned one Thomas Swann who had contrived to get himself mixed up in the affair. Coffee, acting as Jackson's friend, had a duel with one McNairy, and was severely wounded. Finally, for no sufficient cause which the printed accounts discover, Jackson and Dickinson met in Kentucky, each bent on killing his man.
And I profess I would have caned you soundly. The fellow answered that Captain Clapsaddle's honour was killing Mr. Allen, and went out; and came back presently to say that some tall gentleman had the captain by the neck, and that Mr. Allen was picking his way down the ice on the steps outside. With that I went in to them in my dressing-gown. "'What's all this to-do, gentlemen? said I.
'Such a tiny little chap as he is, so full of feeling and nerves he hadn't ought to have done it. Yet only that morning she herself had almost given him a sound whipping for one of his mad pranks! Shortly after Teddy crept in, and shutting the door behind him, put his back against it. 'Mother, granny, he said, 'I've been an awful boy at school this morning, and I'm in disgrace. I've been caned.
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