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Creakle, darting his head at him suddenly, and drawing it back again, 'the principal of this establishment, and your employer. 'It was not judicious, sir, I am willing to admit, said Mr. Mell. 'I should not have done so, if I had been cool. Here Steerforth struck in. 'Then he said I was mean, and then he said I was base, and then I called him a beggar.
The very people who read with indignation of Squeers and Creakle in the novels of Dickens are quite ready to hand over their own children to Squeers and Creakle, and to pretend that Squeers and Creakle are monsters of the past. Not very long ago a schoolmaster in Ireland was murdered by his boys; and for reasons which were never made public it was at first decided not to prosecute the murderers.
Creakle had a son, who had not been Tungay's friend, and who, assisting in the school, had once held some remonstrance with his father on an occasion when its discipline was very cruelly exercised, and was supposed, besides, to have protested against his father's usage of his mother. I heard that Mr.
The exertion this cost him, or the consciousness of talking in that feeble way, made his angry face so much more angry, and his thick veins so much thicker, when he spoke, that I am not surprised, on looking back, at this peculiarity striking me as his chief one. 'Now, said Mr. Creakle. 'What's the report of this boy? 'There's nothing against him yet, returned the man with the wooden leg.
Mell, we'll part, if you please. The sooner the better. 'There is no time, answered Mr. Mell, rising, 'like the present. 'Sir, to you! said Mr. Creakle. 'I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you, said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting me gently on the shoulders.
I trembled without distinctly knowing why, and still looked at her earnestly, making no attempt to answer. 'Because, said she, 'I grieve to tell you that I hear this morning your mama is very ill. A mist rose between Mrs. Creakle and me, and her figure seemed to move in it for an instant. Then I felt the burning tears run down my face, and it was steady again.
Once more he laid his hand upon my shoulder; and then taking his flute and a few books from his desk, and leaving the key in it for his successor, he went out of the school, with his property under his arm. Mr. Mr. Creakle then caned Tommy Traddles for being discovered in tears, instead of cheers, on account of Mr.
Creakle and his congeners were to be abolished. They were not to be put to a violent death, but they were to be starved out. The whole face of the country is studded with small grammar-schools or foundation-schools, like knots in a network; and these schools, enlarged and reformed, were to be the ordinary training-places of the Middle Class.
"P.S. We shall reassemble on the 19th of January. Mr. and Mrs. P. present their respectful compliments." The present writer lately asked a close observer of educational matters if Arnold had produced any practical effect on Secondary Education, and the answer was "He pulled down the strongholds of such as Mr. Creakle."
I heard that the table beer was a robbery of parents, and the pudding an imposition. I heard that Miss Creakle was regarded by the school in general as being in love with Steerforth; and I am sure, as I sat in the dark, thinking of his nice voice, and his fine face, and his easy manner, and his curling hair, I thought it very likely. I heard that Mr.
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