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It seemed useless enough to inquire and yet Randal asked himself the question. Her father had been described as an officer in the Navy. Well, and what did that matter? Inclined to laugh at his own idle curiosity, he was suddenly struck by a new idea. What had his brother told him of Miss Westerfield? She was the daughter of an officer in the Navy; she had been pupil-teacher at a school.
The master lamented that this affair of their brother should have given a handle against them, for he wanted the services of the elder one as a monitor, eventually as a pupil-teacher, but did not know whether the choice would be advisable under the present circumstances.
Once, when Dora had announced in the hearing of a pupil-teacher that she was the prettiest girl in the school: "You ain't, then," the older girl had told her. "You are not pretty at all, Dora, but exactly like your brother Jim." "Jim's ugly! You're a-tazin' of me!" Dora had fiercely cried. "If you hadn't your curls you'd be Jim over again," the teacher had persisted.
"Do you mean on the Continent?" "Yes, I do, my dear child. To no less a place than the Harz Mountains. I have heard of a most charming school, fifty times better than Middleton School; and you are to go there, my dear Elma, at my expense. You will go as pupil-teacher, and you thus acquire perfect German. Think what that will mean for you!
We are all, to borrow the old scholastic term, pupil-teachers of Life; the term is none the less appropriate because the pupil-teacher taught badly and learnt under difficulties. It may seem to be a crowning feat of platitude to write that "we have to remember" this, but it is overlooked in a whole mass of legal, social and economic literature.
'Send Vava to a school as a pupil-teacher, to be looked down upon and despised by the other girls who were richer than she, to waste half her time in teaching, and let her go away from me? I could not do it! cried the girl impulsively.
But if you do such a thing again, I must take away your Saturday afternoon holiday." That would be a severe punishment, for the girls dearly loved the freedom of the long Saturday afternoons. From early dinner until teatime, they amused themselves as they pleased, indoors or on the 'Home' grounds, under the general oversight of a pupil-teacher.
Presently the pupil-teacher, a young black man, who had charge of this class, asked me if I would like to hear them sing a hymn, and on my assenting he read out a verse of "Hold the Fort," and they all stood up and sang it, or rather its Kafir translation, lustily and with good courage, though without much tune.
Because you must live, you and Vava, and I don't quite see how you are to do that on fifty pounds a year twenty-five pounds apiece even if we get your sister into a school where they would take her on half-terms as a kind of pupil-teacher, explained the lawyer patiently.
'And Camilla, if we tide over this present trouble, said Bessie, 'I think you or I must do something something to earn money by. I am too young to be a governess yet, but I know she almost said it to me that Miss Scarlett would take me even now as a sort of pupil-teacher, and two years hence I think I might be a governess to young children. 'It may have to be, the elder sister agreed.
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