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The opinion, generally, among the boys was that he did not feel pain and, being caned so frequently, such punishment as he got in a fight was a mere trifle to him. He was a thorn in the side of Mr. Purfleet, the usher who was generally in charge of the playground; who had learned by long experience that, whenever Bob Repton was quiet, he was certain to be planning some special piece of mischief.
The lawn was a spacious table-land facing the west, and backed by a green and gentle hill, crowned with the ruins of an ancient priory. On one side of the lawn stretched a flower-garden and pleasure-ground, originally planned by Repton; on the opposite angles of the sward were placed two large marquees, one for dancing, the other for supper.
Pride had been her mainspring; now even that was broken. Repton went out of the house and returned at midnight. "It's all settled," he said. "You will have a cabin on deck in both steamers. I gave your name in confidence to the manager here and he will take care that everything possible is done for you. There will be very few passengers on the German boat.
There was a great deal of regret expressed, when it was known that Bob Repton was going home; for he had always been ready to do any acts of kindness in his power especially to children, of whom he was very fond and it was not forgotten that his daring enterprise, in going out alone to fetch in fruit, had saved many of their lives.
"He drinks and ill-treats you." Stella shook her head. "You asked questions in Bombay where we are known. You were not told that," she said confidently. There was only one person in Bombay who knew the truth and Jane Repton, she was very sure, would never have betrayed her. "That's true," Thresk conceded. "But why? Because it's only here in camp that he lets himself go.
"And did she in consequence of what you told her give you any account of her life with her husband?" Mrs. Repton hesitated not because she was any longer in doubt as to whether she would speak the whole truth or not she had committed herself already too far but because the form of the question nettled her. It was a little too forensic for her taste.
The usher was sitting now on a bench, with a book in his hand; but his attention was, at present, directed to a group of four boys who had drawn together in a corner of the playground. "There is Repton, again," he said to himself. "I wonder what he is plotting, now. That boy will be the death of me.
But no sooner had she taken her seat than her terror increased tenfold, for Ballantyne rose swiftly from his chair and walking in a circle round the room with an extraordinarily light and noiseless step disappeared behind her. Then he sat down. Mrs. Repton heard the slight grating of the legs of a chair upon the floor. It was a chair at a writing-table close by the window and exactly at her back.
Repton, a kindly old gentleman, wearing large spectacles, and in general appearance one of those genial types from which our caricaturists have constructed the national figure of John Bull. It was a pleasure to be in the presence of so honest a man, and in spite of George's extreme nervousness he felt a certain security in such company. Moreover, Mr.
"I feel already," replied John, "as if a great weight were removed from my heart; and were it not for the debt which I have contracted to you Ah, Charles, I little dreamt, when I looked down from the hill over Repton, and thought my store inexhaustible, that I should be obliged to you thus late in life.
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