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The fact that the head-master's daughters and several girls, who were friends or relatives of his family, shared many of our lessons, also contributed essentially to soften the manners of the young German savages.
As he crossed the quadrangle a cab drove in, and set down a tall, elderly gentleman, who, after looking about him, advanced towards the prefect, and said, "Can you direct me to the head-master's house?" "Yes, sir," said Ainger, "I'm going there myself. It's this way." It wasn't often strangers made so early a call at Grandcourt.
They seem to think the sole object of a head-master's existence is to look after the comfort and morals of their own particular Tommy, or Bobby, or Dicky, or Harry. For heaven's sake, what form is Blenkinsopp major in? For heaven's sake, what's his Christian name, and age last birthday, and place in French and mathematics, and general state of health for past quarter?
Besides, it attracted the new head-master's attention to my poetical tastes, for a number of verses had been left by mistake in an exercise- book. He read them, and asked to see the rest.
"Perhaps the pledge would come better from me, the natural prosecutor." "Very good." The doctor returned to his class-room, not too soon. One of the young scamps had taken his chair, and was delivering a burlesque lecture, near enough to the head-master's style to excite irreverent laughter.
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