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He saw far more possibilities in the routine of life at Locksley than did the majority of his contemporaries, and every now and then he made use of these possibilities in a way that caused a considerable sensation in the school. In the ordinary way of school work, however, he was not particularly brilliant, and suffered in consequence. His chief foe was his form-master, Mr. Langridge.
"What do you call this, sir?" inquired one of the auctioneer, with the manner of a cheeky boy trying to get a rise out of his form-master. "Is it as 'unique' as the others?" "You're as well able to judge as I am," was the guarded reply. "Any one can see for himself it's not modern rubbish." "Make a pretty little ornament for the mantelpiece!" remarked a wag.
"The headmaster will never sanction it when it's put to him plainly." "But why should I put it?" said Rickie, twisting the ribbons of his gown round his fingers. "Because you're the boy's form-master." "Is that a reason?" "Of course it is." "I only wondered whether " He did not like to say that he wondered whether he need do it his first morning.
John's brain worked slowly, as he had found out to his cost under a form-master who maintained that it was no use having a fact stored in the head unless it slipped readily out of the mouth. The Duffer, who never thought, because speaking was so much easier, grew impatient at John's silence. "Well, you needn't look like an owl, Verney. You know that Scaife's grandfather was a navvy."
Holms was full of a project for hiring a bicycle during the summer months, and, what with listening to the unfolding of this plan, and struggling with the work in hand, Valentine soon forgot the existence of his undiscovered relative. Towards the end of the first hour Mr. Copland, the form-master, folded up a piece of paper on which he had been writing, and handing it across the desk, said,
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