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"Well; next time either Harpour, or any one else, tries to make you do what's wrong, remember they can't make you, if you don't choose; and say flatly `No! and stick to it in spite of everything, like a brave little man, will you?" "I did say `No! at first, Walter; but they threatened to frighten me," he said. "They knew I daren't hold out." Yes; there was the secret of it all.
"Honestly, Ken, who ought to be most ashamed you, the advocate of Harpour and his set, or I, who merely defended my best friend for behaving most honourably as he always does?" "Always?" sneered Kenrick.
Let us come and hear for we have put on our cap of darkness and are invisible, coming and going where we like, unobserved what our four fast friends at the racket-court are talking about. "We shall have lots of larks this half," observes Harpour, leaning on his racket. "Yes; such fun, old boy," answers Jones.
"I don't care what you do to me, Harpour," rejoined Walter, "and I don't think you'll do very much. But I do tell you that it's a blackguard shame for a great big fellow like you to torment a little delicate chap like Eden; and what's more, you shan't do it." "Shan't! my patience. I like that I why, who is to prevent me?"
Then Somers stood up in the dais and said "Is Harpour here? the rest please to keep their places." "I'm here what do you want of me?" said Harpour sulkily, as he stood up in his place.
On the last occasion when he had ordered Eden to go to Dan's, Eden had taken Walter's advice, and firmly refused to go. Harpour did not think it safe to compel him, but he threw out some significant threats, which filled the little boy with vague alarm and weighed heavily on his spirits.
A little more of this discipline, and a boy naturally noble-hearted and capable, might have been transformed into a mere moon-calf, like poor Plumber, or a cruel and vicious bully, like Harpour or Jones. Happily our young Walter was saved by other influences from losing his self-respect.
What! you will come?" he continued, shaking Jones's arm violently, and then flinging him back as easily as though he had been a child; "if either you or Harpour come near the bed I'll fetch Robertson instantly. Eden would go off again in a swoon, if he saw such brutes as you when he recovered." In such a mood Walter was not to be resisted.
By the by, as I have a lightning-kite ready made for you no doubt; he's accustomed to the experiment." "Why, Flip, you talk as if we were going to have a pitched battle," said Power, ignoring his joke about Franklin. "So we are practically and morally. Look out for skirmishes from the Harpour lot; especially the world, the flesh, and the devil, whom I just saw arm in arm."
Yet these two houses were in a better condition than any others in the school, because the heads of them did their duty; and it was no slight credit to Walter and Henderson that their house stood higher in character than any other, although it contained both Harpour and Jones.
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