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Updated: June 25, 2025
When Walter asked his tutor for the paper on which to write his punishment, Mr Robertson said to him, "Already, Evson!" in a tone of displeasure, and with a sarcasm hardly inferior to that of Talleyrand's celebrated "Deja." "Two hundred lines and a lesson to write out already!"
Detention, of course. Thank you for nothing. And on the other side of the sheet he wrote in large letters "No Go!" Which, being done, he passed the sheet along the form pour encourager les autres. "Evson," said Mr Paton, quietly, "bring me that paper." Walter took it up looking rather alarmed this time but with the side "No go!" uppermost. "What is this, Evson?"
"Please let us walk up to the top of the hill, papa," said Walter; "I shan't be wanted till tea-time, and I needn't bid good-bye to you here." Mr Evson was as little anxious as Walter to hasten the parting. They had never been separated before. Mr Evson could look back for the rare period of thirteen years, during which they had enjoyed, by God's blessing, an almost uninterrupted happiness.
"Evson, I came to ask you if whether if you've been telling to any of the fellows all about me; all I told you about my father?" As Walter instantly remembered that he had mentioned the story to Power, he could not at once say "No," but was about to explain. "Telling any of the fellows all about you and your father?" he repeated; "I didn't know " "Please, I don't want any excuses.
But Mr Paton, allowing for his violent frame of mind, took no notice of this last affront. Whereupon Walter, taking another large piece of paper, and a spluttering quill pen, wrote on it, with a great deal of scratching Due from Evson to Mr Paton. For missing lesson... 100 lines. For laying down books... 300 lines. For laughing... 200 lines. For writing 200 lines... A caning.
Elgood, I should have thought you innocent, if you didn't behave so oddly." "May I speak?" modestly asked a new voice. The speaker was Charlie Evson. "Yes, certainly," said Kenrick, in an encouraging tone. "Well then, please, Kenrick, and the whole of you, I think you have had the truth out of him; and I think he is innocent." "Why, Charlie?" said Whalley; "what makes you think so?"
There's them above as'll forgive you, and make you do better next time, lad, if you only knew it. Here, you must eat some of this dinner, Master Evson, and leave off cryin' so; cryin's no comfort, sir."
"They will come back, dear Mrs Evson, they will come back, you will see," was his repeated asseveration; and oppressed as her heart was with doubt and fear, she was never weary of those words.
"Have you fellows been bullying poor little Eden?" asked Walter indignantly. "I've not," and "I've not," said Anthony and Franklin, who were better than the rest in every way; and "I haven't touched the fellow, Evson," said Cradock, who meant no harm, and at Walter's earnest request had never again annoyed Eden since the first night.
"I don't want the learned, the clever, the profound Bliss to teach me my duty," he said, with a proud sneer; "what business have you to abuse the house, because it is not full of young ninnies like Evson? You're no monitor of mine, let me tell you."
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