hortace

Updated: September 7, 2025

"You're the school-mistress?" he asked, with the directness of an old man who feels that he need not mince his words. "Yes, sir. I'm Miss Whyte." "My name's Ramsay; Homer Ramsay. I live opposite, and I've come to tell you I admire your pluck in not letting my cousin, Hortace Barker, put you down. I'll stand by you, too; you can tell him that. Break up your school? I should like to see him do it.

Robert Grant - The Law-Breakers and Other Stories