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The situation was high and healthy; the surroundings were picturesque. And for society, well, there was Miss Fouracres, whom Mr. Ruddiman regarded as a very sensible and pleasant person. Of course, no one at Longmeadows had an inkling of the under-master's intention.
Calculate my income for the present year. This kind of problem was constantly being given out by Mr. Ruddiman, assistant master at Longmeadows School. Mr. Ruddiman, who had reached the age of five-and-forty, and who never in his life had possessed five-and-forty pounds, used his arithmetic lesson as an opportunity for flight of imagination.
Ruddiman looked and felt uncomfortable. 'I'll come again very soon, Miss Fouracres, he said. 'You might just speak to your father about the room. 'Thank you, sir. I will, sir. And, with another uneasy glance, which was not returned, the under-master went his way. Descending towards Longmeadows, he thought over the innkeeper's story, which may be briefly related. Some ten years before this Mr.
He would bid his youngsters compute the proceeds of some familiar tax, and the vast sum it represented rolled from his lips on a note of extraordinary satisfaction, as if he gloried in this evidence of national prosperity. His salary at Longmeadows just sufficed to keep him decently clad and to support him during the holidays.
Only at such an establishment as Longmeadows an old-fashioned commercial 'academy, recommended to parents by the healthiness of its rural situation could he have hoped to hold his ground against modern educational tendencies, which aim at obliterating Mr. Ruddiman and all his kind.
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