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"That for old Crabb!" said Jim, contemptuously, snapping his fingers. "He don't know much himself. I've caught him in plenty of mistakes." This was certainly very amusing, considering Smith's absolute ignorance of even the Latin rudiments, but the boys around him did not venture to contradict him. "But it don't make any difference whether he knows Latin or not," proceeded Jim.
In the other rooms there was women standin' on clouds, and there was children with wings on and nothin' else; but everybody give them things the complete go-by. Yes, sir, let me tell you, Melissa Crabb, all those folks was once just country folks like you and me.
If an American ship be "proceeding from" the port of Liverpool to some port in the United States, how soon does she enter on what lexicographers call "the state of being" homeward-bound? The narrow limits to which Dr. Webster confines the word would not extend beyond the jaws of the harbor from which the ship is sailing. Dr. Crabb."
It is not penuriousness, as some of the boys may think it is poverty that prevents me from attiring myself more becomingly." "Mr. Crabb, I sympathize with you," said Hector. "Thank you, Hector. Of that I am sure." "Mr. Smith ought to pay you enough to clothe yourself neatly. He makes you work hard enough." "He pays me twenty dollars a month," said the usher; "twenty dollars and my board."
Crabb," he said, after they were fairly on their way, "I am sorry to see that Mr. Smith has not forgiven you for taking my part against Jim." "I would do it again, Roscoe," said the usher. "I could not sit silent while so great an injustice was being done." "Do you think Jim was punished?" "I am sure he was not. He is a boy after Mr.
Froude might be an "infidel," he was not a criminal, and in resigning his Fellowship he had shown more honesty than prudence. His position excited the sympathy of influential persons. Crabb Robinson, though an entire stranger to him, wrote a public protest against Froude's treatment. Other men, not less distinguished, went farther.
"This to me?" exclaimed Socrates Smith, hardly crediting the testimony of his ears. "Yes, sir, and more! I predict that the stupid folly which has characterized your course will, within six months, drive from you every scholar you have in your school!" "Mr. Crabb," gasped Socrates, never more surprised in his life than he was at the sudden spirit exhibited by the usher, "I will not be so insulted.
This prophecy, written in March, 1830, foreshadowed exactly what happened in July of the same year, when, as an outspoken English Tory told Henry Crabb Robinson, in a reading-room at Florence: "The king of France has sent the deputies about their business, has abolished the d d Constitution and the liberty of the Press, and proclaimed his own power as absolute king."
Smith had ventured to answer a question himself, and his answer was ludicrously incorrect. The schoolroom was a moderate-sized, dreary-looking room, with another smaller room opening out of it, which was used as a separate recitation room. "Here is a vacant desk," said Mr. Crabb, pointing out one centrally situated. "I think that will do. Who sits at the next desk?" "Mr. Smith's nephew."
The Sioux had probably scattered before the squadrons sent after them from the north; had fled into the hills and, in small bands probably, were now raiding down toward the Platte, well knowing there were few soldiers left to defend Fort Frayne, and no cavalry were there to chase them. "What brings them here? What do they hope to get or gain?" asked Flint. "I don't know, sir," answered Crabb.
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