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"From Dexter?" said Helen eagerly. "Humph! No! But from Longspruce! I see: from Mr Mastrum." The doctor read the letter and frowned. Helen read it, and the tears stood in her eyes. "The young scoun " "Stop, papa!" said Helen earnestly. "Do not condemn him unheard." "Then I shall have to go on without condemning him, for we've seen the last of him, I suppose." "O papa!"
Dexter is backward, and he is disobedient; not wilfully perhaps, but disobedient decidedly. Now listen "`Backward and disobedient boys. The Reverend Septimus Mastrum, MA Oxon, receives a limited number of pupils of neglected education. Firm and kindly treatment. Extensive grounds. Healthy situation. For terms apply to the Reverend Septimus Mastrum, Firlands, Longspruce Station." "There!
Dexter looked a promise, for he could not speak just then, nor yet when they had passed through London that afternoon, reached Longspruce station, and been driven to the Reverend Septimus Mastrum's house, five miles away among the fir-trees and sand of that bleak region.
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