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Agnes has my confidence completely, always; I tell her all about the butcher, and the wrongs he has heaped upon me; she thinks I couldn't have done otherwise than fight the butcher, while she shrinks and trembles at my having fought him. Time has stolen on unobserved, for Adams is not the head-boy in the days that are come now, nor has he been this many and many a day.
And to us, looking back, it seems but the same yesterday whether we were the last comer or the head-boy." "I thought," said Alban, plaintively, "that, for a short time at least, I had done with 'painful subjects. You revel in them! County Guy, you have not left school yet; leave it with credit; win the best prize."
Do you see the head-boy the third of those that are coming up the path? I shall have to get rid of him. Do you see him? he is going back to whip up the laggers and now he has boxed a boy's ears: that boy is one of the most hopeful under my care. I feel sure he has been using improper language, and my head-boy has checked him instead of encouraging him." And so on till the boys were all in school.
"Monsieur Duval lent him some money; he has taken a shop, where he works on his own account; and, as for me, I go to school." "Yes," replied I, remarking for the first time the cross that decorated his little coat; "and I see that you are head-boy!" "Monsieur Charles helps me to learn, and so I am come to be the first in the class." "Are you now going to your lessons?"
He repeated his question to the class, and the head-boy answered, "Because, sir, extremes meet, and extreme truth will be mixed with extreme falsehood." "Quite right, my boy. Truth is like religion; it has only two enemies the too much and the too little. Your answer is more satisfactory than some of your recent conduct had led me to expect."
Ready immediately." The head-boy of the Shell collected the books, and took them to the desk; the three masters glanced casually at about a dozen, and suddenly stopped at one. Eric's heart beat loud, as his saw Mr. Rose point towards him. "We have discovered a handwriting which remarkably resembles that on the board. I give the offender one more chance of substituting confession for detection."
About five-and-twenty boys were studiously engaged at their books when we went in, but they rose to give the Doctor good morning, and remained standing when they saw Mr. Wickfield and me. 'A new boy, young gentlemen, said the Doctor; 'Trotwood Copperfield. One Adams, who was the head-boy, then stepped out of his place and welcomed me.
Before seven o'clock, the whole school, choristers and king's scholars, assembled in the cloisters. There the head-boy sent in his name to the very chamber of the Lord Chief Justice, who happened this time to have come to the Helstonleigh circuit. "Mr. Gaunt, senior of the college school" craving holiday for himself, and the whole fry who had attended him.
A blank, through which the warriors of poetry and history march on in stately hosts that seem to have no end and what comes next! I am the head-boy, now! I look down on the line of boys below me, with a condescending interest in such of them as bring to my mind the boy I was myself, when I first came there.
There was one curious custom at Chittenden's, and I do not know whether it obtained in other schools in those days. Some time in the summer term the head-boy would announce that "The Three Sundays" had arrived, and must be duly observed according to ancient custom. We all obeyed him implicity.
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