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'I don't think there is much fear of her learning anything of that kind from the boarders, said Jacinth, gratified by her aunt's confidential tone. 'I shouldn't be so sure of the day-scholars, but you know, Aunt Alison, the Miss Scarletts keep them very distinct. It is a well, with a little smile, 'a great compliment for Francie to be asked this way.
Thus Bessie's first week of exile got over, and except for a sense of being hungry now and then, she did not find herself so very miserable after all. One morning Bessie Fairfax rose to a new sensation. "To-day the classes open, and there is an end of treats," cried Janey Fricker with a despairing resignation. "You will soon see the day-scholars, and by degrees the boarders will arrive.
"Well, it comes to this, that we want all to share and share alike. Isn't that it, Top?" Jack tweaked the defiant tuft as he put the question, and Toppin laughed up at him and nodded. The most unfortunate effect of the whole incident was the bitterness which it revived in the day-scholars. It had almost seemed as if time was breaking down the wall of enmity which was so strong at the beginning.
There was one boarder who made no pretence of learning music, and several day-scholars; of course, being French, they spoke French, but not a girl of them all, not madame herself, could frame three consecutive sentences in English to be understood. In the novelty of the situation Janey was patroness for the day.
Thank you so much, Aunt Alison, for letting Frances go. I'll run and tell her, she will be so delighted. And so she was, delighted and grateful, so that she took in good part the little lecture Jacinth proceeded to give her in accordance with her aunt's wish. 'I am careful, I really am, Jass, she maintained. 'I don't care a bit for any of the day-scholars.
It is in the separate schools that the healthy relation vanishes, and the thought of sex becomes a morbid and diseased thing. This observation first occurred to me when a pupil and a teacher in boys' boarding-schools years ago: there was such marked superiority as to sexual refinement in the day-scholars, who saw their sisters and the friends of their sisters every day.
This might have been easily foreseen, for he was the type of a thoroughly boyish mind in its more genial and honorable characteristics, and his round of acquaintances daily increased. Among others, a few of the sixth, who were also day-scholars, began to notice and walk home with him.
Meanwhile, and as a precautionary measure, it assigns to each its eventual duty; if the commune establishes a primary school for itself, it must provide the tutor with a lodging, and the parents must compensate him; if the commune founds a college or accepts a lycée, it must pay for the annual support of the building, while the pupils, either day-scholars or boarders, pay accordingly.
Perhaps she had thought better of it; perhaps she had been prevented; perhaps the whole appointment had been only a trick of some day-scholars, who were laughing at him behind some window. In proportion as he became convinced that she was not coming, he was conscious of a keen despair growing in his heart, and a sickening remorse that he had ever thought of preventing her.
For there was a strict rule at the school, that day-scholars were neither to go there nor to send messages from their homes, out of school hours. So that forgettings of books required for preparation, or other carelessnesses of the kind, became serious matters. 'If I don't get it till I go to school on Monday, I needn't get it at all, said Frances. 'There's no comfort in telling me that.
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