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Loman was sorely mortified. He had expected his defection would create quite a sensation, and that his class-fellows would be inconsolable at his accident. Instead of that, he had only contrived to quarrel with nearly all of them, alienating their sympathy; and in the end he was to be quietly superseded by Baynes, and the match was to go on as if he had never been heard of at Saint Dominic's.
Here was a fellow, I say, whom every sensible boy ought to avoid, not only showing himself utterly indifferent to the aversion of his class-fellows, but positively thriving and triumphing before their very faces! Was it any wonder if they felt very sore, and increasingly sore on the subject of Oliver Greenfield? One boy, of course, stuck to the exile through thick and thin.
So she put away the fear from her mind. If she could only win the fellowship! But she was too humble about her own attainments to have more than a little, little hope of that. How generous they all were, Mary thought, with an impulse of gratitude towards those dear class-fellows that brought the tears to her eyes.
At the fourth, an especially resounding one, Penny whistled a soft and prolonged whistle of amazement, and murmured: "Well, that's a boundary, anyway." And I heard suppressed giggles, and knew that my class-fellows were enjoying the exquisite agony of forcing back their laughter.
And so they went into breakfast, which was a solemn meal, and despite Stephen's care in hunting up delicacies, not very well partaken of. It seemed ages before the nine o'clock bell summoned them down to the Fifth Form room. Here, however, the sympathy and encouragement of their class-fellows amply served to pass the time till the examination began.
It was a feat to be proud of, and Tony was justly and pardonably proud. It was at least a gratification next morning to see not only that the school generally took unabated interest in the Dominican, but that he had fairly astonished his own class-fellows. Their admiration of the editor was unbounded and undisguised.
He refused to answer any further questions on the subject, and presently quitted the room, leaving more than half his class-fellows convinced that, after all, he was a coward. An angry discussion followed his departure. "He ought to be made to fight, whether he likes or not," said Braddy the bully. "Some one ought to pay Loman out," suggested Ricketts, "if Greenfield doesn't."
She was more thoughtful than her class-fellows, in advance of her years in piety and intelligence; and they, knowing her sad story how she was severed from her country and kindred, her father a wanderer with his King, her sister bred up at a foreign Court had first compassionated and then admired her.
What a long weary road when one, with aching heart, attempts to retrace the way! And at present Loman had made no serious effort in that direction. On the Friday morning, greatly to the astonishment of all his class-fellows, he appeared in his place with his arm in a sling. "Hullo, Loman!" said Wren, the first whom he encountered, "what's the row with you?"
"And hae ye forgot the lounderings that I used to gie ye, for ca'in ane anither such names?" inquired Mr Grierson, with a smile. "I remember you were displeased at it," replied the other. "Weel, doctor," continued the teacher, "I believe I can gratify your curiosity, and I am not sure but you'll find that the history of your class-fellows is not without interest.
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