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"Oh, those tiresome grown-up people!" whispered Lily, petulantly, to Kenelm. "I do like Mr. Emlyn; he is one of the very best of men. But still he is grown up, and his 'Numa Pompilius' is so stupid." "My first French lesson-book. No, it is not stupid. Read on. It has hints of the prettiest fairy tale I know, and of the fairy in especial who bewitched my fancies as a boy."
Philip's eyes were streaming, and, unobserved, he put the lesson-book to his lips. He had guessed its secret. The girl was making herself worthy of him. God bless, her! Kate came downstairs in the dark dress and white collar of Sunday night. She saw Philip putting down the book, lowered her head and blushed, took up the volume, and smuggled it out of sight.
Epic poetry no longer merely furnished the schoolmaster with a lesson-book, but addressed itself independently to the hearing and reading public.
He tore up his copy-book and lesson-book, all quite openly, with his eye on the schoolmaster, provocative. They shut him up in a dark room. A few moments later the schoolmaster found him with his handkerchief tied round his neck, tugging with all his strength at the two ends of it. He was trying to strangle himself. They had to send him back. Jean-Christophe was impervious to sickness.
De Launay bowed an assent. "Well! We have kept a messenger of Mother Church waiting our pleasure, and not for the first time in the annals of history! But why do you associate his name with poison?" "Really, Sir, the connection is inexplicable, unless it be the memory of a religious lesson-book given to me in my childhood.
On one occasion it happened that, during these lessons in French, he was varying the monotony of a study hour by drawing, under cover of his lesson-book, a portrait of his teacher, whose most striking physical characteristic was a nose of extravagant bulk. He was detected just as he was completing the sketch, and was asked, much to his confusion, to exhibit the result.
If I have helped you to see that Literature need be no dreary lesson I shall be more than repaid. "They use me as a lesson-book at schools," said Tennyson, "and they will call me 'that horrible Tennyson." I should like to think that the time is coming when schoolgirls and schoolboys will say, "We have Tennyson for a school-book. How nice."
'Queenie dear, it is one o'clock; you may take your lesson-book, and make yourself and your doll-people tidy for dinner. Queenie obediently trotted off to the house, and the speaker continued. 'What's all this about Jerry Blunt, boys? I thought he was a sailor? What in the world has a sailor to do with training bullfinches, I want to know?
"Perhaps it doesn't understand English," thought Alice. "I dare say it's a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror." So she began again: "Où est ma chatte?" which was the first sentence in her French lesson-book. The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright.
Then he went on steadily, with a level voice almost as if he were a schoolboy reading from a lesson-book: 'I shall remember as long as I live the beautiful thoughts with which you have inspired me, your kindness, your friendship and, and He never knew how it happened men of his temperament never do know but he was on his knees before her, and the words burst from him with a sob. 'And you!
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