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He marched off in one direction, while our guard took us in the other, talking at us all the time. "Disgraceful!" Mr Rebble said. "The Doctor will be nearly heart-broken about such a stigma upon his establishment. I don't know what he'll say." "They will be expelled, I presume," said Mr Hasnip softly. "It is very sad to see such wickedness in those so young."
He is as pitiful and contemptible a boy as ever came under my charge, but I am afraid he has spoken the truth here." "I fear so," said the Doctor. "Mr Hasnip, you have been but a short time among us, still you have learned the disposition of the pupils. Can you help me help us? for it is terrible to me to have to pass judgment in such a case."
Then Mr Rebble and Mr Hasnip came down to see how we were getting on, and stood cheering and encouraging the timid ones, who were loth to get duckings by learning to swim. I had been trying for some time, right out in the middle, to float without moving, while Mercer and Hodson in turn had their tries.
He said this last in a husky whisper, and with white rings showing round his wide-open eyes, he turned and pointed toward the middle of the great pool. "Who who has?" cried Mr Hasnip frantically, and we looked eagerly from one to the other, but no one seemed to be missing. "Speak, sir. Who is? Where?" cried Mr Rebble, seizing Burr major by his wet shoulders and shaking him. "Don't go on like that.
"I wonder what Mr Hasnip will set us to do," I thought, as the clock at last told that the morning's studies were nearly at an end, and I was still wondering when the boys rose, and Eely Burr, Dicksee, and the other big fellow, Hodson, came round behind us, and the first whispered, "Lucky for you two that you didn't tell. My! I shouldn't have liked to be you, if you had."
I saw both Mr Rebble and Mr Hasnip look up and frown as they caught sight of my damaged face, and I was congratulating myself on escaping the Doctor's eye, when he looked up, frowned, and went on with his lunch.
"Why, he must have crept along the ditch behind the tent," I cried involuntarily, "and pushed his arm through. Yes, I know," I said, getting more excited, as my mother's arm tightened about me. "I saw him that evening with his face all stung by nettles." "That ditch is full of nettles," cried Mr Hasnip. "Good! good!" cried the General.
"But how was it, Mr Burr major?" "I I don't know," said my school-fellow, starting. "I think he suddenly remembered it was so deep, and he turned frightened, for he went under all at once and right down, and then I cried for help." "Better have lent him a hand," said Lomax gruffly. "Well, Mr Hasnip, sir, feel him coming to?" "No, no," said the second master dolefully. "He is dead! he is dead!"
The Doctor coughed loudly, and our action seemed to have given the gentlemen present colds. Then the Doctor signed to his wife, whispered to her, and she left the room with Cook and Polly Hopley. Next he signed to Mr Rebble and Mr Hasnip, who both came and shook hands with me, bowed to the General and my uncle, and they too left the room, with Burr major and Dicksee.
For my mother and my uncle had come down to fetch me, and say a few kind words to the Doctor and Mrs Doctor, as well as to visit Sir Hawkhurst. I saw Lomax too, and Mr Rebble and Mr Hasnip, at the door, and it seemed as if there was always some one fresh to shake hands with, the old sergeant shaking mine with both his, and his voice sounded very husky as he said,
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