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They were all in bronze, and his mind had the doleful imagination of brown slave heroes placed there in honour for services given to the country. The doors at the south end of the great salon opened now and then into the council chambers beyond, and he could see the surgeons operating on the cases returned from the plantations. "Your honour," said the Custos, "things have suddenly improved.
When the School assembled at half-past eight, the monitors came in, followed by the Head Master in cap and gown. Then, a moment later, the School Custos entered with Scaife. They sat down upon a small bench near the door. Immediately the whispers, the shuffling of feet, the occasional cough, died down into a thrilling silence. The Head Master stood up.
"Good-bye, Frantz," said Suzel. "Good-bye, Suzel," replied Frantz. And, after the door had been closed, the young man resumed the way to his father's house with a calm and equal pace. The agitation caused by the Schut and Custos affair had subsided. The affair led to no serious consequences.
Bland and Custos, and Clerke, and so we fell to the business of reference, and upon a letter from Mr.
He likewise erected a new temple in the Capitol to Jupiter Custos, and a forum, which is now called Nerva's , as also the temple of the Flavian family , a stadium , an odeum , and a naumachia ; out of the stone dug from which, the sides of the Circus Maximus, which had been burnt down, were rebuilt. VI. He undertook several expeditions, some from choice, and some from necessity.
The custos received us with as much freedom as the dignity of his numerous offices would admit of. Duncan, is an intelligent, active, business man, and on any other estate than Golden Grove, would doubtless be a personage of considerable distinction. He conducted us through the numerous buildings, from the boiling-house to the pig-stye.
Everyone heard it; even Claremont woke up and asked what it was. Arthur, the school custos, talks of it to this day. And at this point the Chief comes into the story. He was showing the parents in question round the studies when he heard an uproar proceeding from somewhere near the cloisters. He excused himself from the parents, ran downstairs, and tracked the noise to Trundle's class-room.
Two days later a notice was brought round by the school custos: "Roll for all those who went to Salisbury Plain on Wednesday in the big schoolroom at six P.M." There is nothing quite so enjoyable as the sensation that a big row is on, in which you yourself have no part. Gordon trembled with excitement. He whispered excitedly to the man on his left, Lidderdale, a man in Rogers': "What's up?"
He turned and screamed at their long white faces; and still they came on, all stuck together, like some horrible jell . If once he got into them! Bellowing and screeching, he rushed into the undergrowth, tore himself all over, and reached home in convulsions. Mr. Failing, his only grown-up friend, was sympathetic, but quite stupid. "Pan ovium custos," he sympathetic, as he pulled out the thorns.
"Ten more killed and twenty wounded!" said the governor. "It must be stopped." He gave the Custos the letter to Dyck Calhoun, and a few moments later handed the proclamation to his aide-de-camp. "That will settle the business, your honour," said the aide-de-camp as he read the proclamation.
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