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Everything else was now forgotten. Eyes and ears were strained, and minutes elapsed before the pulsations caused by the beating of two balls upon the tightly stretched skin began to grow nearer, and Mr Rampson commenced a discussion to fill up the time by throwing quotations from the old Roman authors at his fellow-tutors and the older boys.
By the same rule, in due time in the periodicity, Mr Rampson would revel in Latin puzzles; and Mr Morris would request the young gentlemen to build up curious constructions with perpendiculars, "slanting-diculars," and other varieties of the diagonal, in company with polygons and other forms of bodies with their many angles and curves, as set forth originally by a certain antique brain-puzzler of the name of Euclid, for the first part of the examination, the second portion consisting of that peculiar form of sport in which, instead of ordinary figures, the various letters of the alphabet were shuffled up and used for calculations, plused, minused, squared, and cubed up to any number of degrees, under the name of equations.
Mr Rampson, there is to be no communication between these two principals and the rest. You, Burney, and you, Singh, go on to my library."
Could you give me a few minutes?" "Certainly, Mr Rampson," replied the Doctor, sitting back. "Have you something to report?" "Well, no, sir, not exactly, but er, but er I er thought I should like to ask you if I had given you satisfaction in connection with my pupils."
"And when it came, sir, to them having such a fuss made over them about their riding the elephant, and you asking them afterwards to dinner, it was bound to come." The boy stopped, and the Doctor turned to the classical master. "Do you hear this, Mr Rampson?" he said, in his most sarcastic manner, the one he adopted towards the most stupidly ignorant boys.
Quite correct, sir," said Rampson, "for Pliny states " "Oh, I don't think we will disturb Pliny to-day, Mr Rampson," said the Doctor, smiling, "unless your pupils particularly wish it," and he glanced round the school. "No, sir!" "No, sir!" "No, sir!" came in chorus. "Very well, gentlemen; then Pliny shall be left at rest.
Mr Morris, to pass his three hours gently and pleasantly, opened a very old copy, by Blankborough, upon logarithms; Monsieur Brohanne had armed himself with a heavy tome of La Grande Encyclopedie, with a bookmark therein at the page dealing with the ancient langue d'oc; while Mr Rampson, also linguistical, opened a sickly-looking vellum volume, horribly mildewy and stained, and made as if to read a very brown page of Greek whose characters looked like so many tiny creases and shrinkings in a piece of dry skin.
He addressed a few words then to Rampson, who had nothing more to say after declaring his perfect certainty that not one of the boys he had the honour of instructing would have been guilty of such a crime. Monsieur Brohanne, too, declared himself as lost in astonishment at the trouble which had come upon them like a sudden tempest.
"Young gentlemen, you will resume your studies at once. Mr Rampson, will you see that these two injured lads go to their dormitory directly. Mrs Hamton will attend to their injuries and report to me whether it is necessary for the surgeon to be called in. You hear me, boys?" shouted the Doctor. "Disperse at once. There will be a lecture in the theatre in ten minutes' time.
I will not have it, Rampson." "But, sir, I " "Don't you see that there's a fight going on? Just as if it were a common school. Come with me at once." The Doctor set aside his stately march and hurried out through the open window, bare-headed, and closely followed by his assistant.
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