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Updated: May 5, 2025
There was almost a wail in the headmaster's voice. The situation had suddenly become too much for him. His brain was swimming. That Mike, despite the evidence against him, should be innocent, was curious, perhaps, but not particularly startling. But that Adair should inform him, two minutes after Mr.
"This boy, whoever he was, had done something before he rang the bell he had painted my dog Sampson red." The headmaster's eyes protruded from their sockets. "He he what, Mr. Downing?" "He painted my dog red bright red." Mr. Downing was too angry to see anything humorous in the incident.
'It was only Mr Lorimer as the master wished to see, said the butler, as Pringle rose to accompany his companion in crime. 'That's all right, said Pringle, 'the Headmaster's always glad to see me. I've got a standing invitation. He'll understand. At first, when he saw two where he had only sent for one, the Headmaster did not understand at all, and said so.
In common with his three brothers he had been through the mills of gentility those unique grinding machines of education only found in his native land. Tod, to be sure, had been publicly sacked at the end of his third term, for climbing on to the headmaster's roof and filling up two of his chimneys with football pants, from which he had omitted to remove his name.
"And on one occasion, when the headmaster's wife hinted to him what a good thing it would be to secure his sister's future with such a reliable, universally respected man as Byelikov, he frowned and muttered: "'It's not my business; let her marry a reptile if she likes. I don't like meddling in other people's affairs. "Now hear what happened next.
But he was ashamed; he would look such a fool in his own eyes if he gave in now; his uncle would chuckle at the success of the headmaster's ruse. It was rather a come-down from the dramatic surrender of all these prizes which were in his reach, because he disdained to take them, to the plain, ordinary winning of them.
I had been present at one or two fights before, at the school I used to attend at Westham, where the boys used to settle their differences generally at the bottom of the playground under a little clump of shady trees that were grouped there, which shut off the view of the house and the headmaster's eye; but never previously had the surroundings of any similar pugilistic encounter seemed so strange as now!
The postbag, that evening it came late contained a letter for me, which, however, in the hand of my employer, I found to be composed but of a few words enclosing another, addressed to himself, with a seal still unbroken. "This, I recognize, is from the headmaster, and the headmaster's an awful bore. Read him, please; deal with him; but mind you don't report. Not a word. I'm off!"
'If I don't get sacked my father takes me away after a couple of terms. I went to four private schools before I started on the public schools. My pater took me away from the first two because he thought the drains were bad, the third because they wouldn't teach me shorthand, and the fourth because he didn't like the headmaster's face.
He was sent to Rugby, but disapproving of the headmaster's judgment of his Latin verses, he produced such a lampoon upon him, also in Latin, as made removal or expulsion a necessity.
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