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As one who prided himself upon the perfection of his English this cut Mason to the quick, and while he was trying to discover the offender, the Upper and Lower Second, three form-rooms away, turned out the gas and threw ink-pots. It was a pleasant and stimulating "prep." The study-boys and prefects heard the echoes of it far off, and the Common-room at dessert smiled.
"All boys not in the Sixth Form," he said, "will go to their form-rooms and get their books and writing-materials, and return to the Hall." Seymour to himself. "The Sixth Form will go to their form-room as usual. I should like to speak to the masters for a moment." He nodded dismissal to the school. The masters collected on the daïs.
"Well, no, sir. They only look on and grin and turn up their noses generally." "Ah," said Prout sympathetically. "I think, sir," said Craye, plunging into the business boldly, "it would be a great deal better if they wore sent back to their study better for the house. They are rather old to be knocking about the form-rooms."
The girls, in orderly files, marched from the lecture-hall, and betook themselves first to their new form-rooms, where textbooks were given out with preparation for the next day, and desks allotted; then, when the great bell rang for dismissal, to the playground and cloak-rooms, en route for home. Ingred, with a goodly pile of fresh literature under her arm, walked slowly downstairs.
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