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Updated: July 6, 2025
He would always listen to any mother who came to protest against the cruelty of the village schoolmistress to her offspring. The cruelty of the teacher was almost as unendurable to him as that of a bad father or husband. He would not hear of any justification for rapping school-children over the knuckles with a ruler.
"I have been to Langley Brook for a day's fly-fishing, and was tramping home across country in a savage humour at my poor sport, when I heard the chatter of small voices, and presently came upon the Scobels and the school-children. The juveniles were in a state of alarm at having lost you. They had been playing the game in severe silence, and at a turn in the grove missed you altogether.
What dim memories of old spring days, before their sad disabilities had settled upon them, were working in those aged and feeble brains! What pleased me best was the obvious and light-hearted happiness of the whole party, a compensation for days of starved monotony. No party of school-children on a holiday could have been more thoughtlessly, more intently gay.
Then they pointed out all the things that lay about, so that they might take an intelligent interest in their surroundings, Guernsey, and Herm, and Jethou, and Alderney, and the Casquets, and the coast of France, and the Seigneur in his boat, and then they trooped off like a party of school-children.
Sapp, meantime, was giving a biographical account of the school-children and their parents, saying how Mrs.
She went in and saw whitewashed walls; thick round pillars between the nave and aisles; deep-sunken windows dim with fragmentary pieces of colored glass, and all more or less out of the perpendicular; a worm-eaten oak-screen separating the chancel and a solemn enclosure, erst a chapel, now the Fairfax pew; a loft where the choir sat in front for divine service, with fiddle and bassoon, and the school-children sat behind, all under the eye of the parson and his clerk, who was also the school-master.
And it was no divided allegiance she promised him. "Career? I shall have a career. Yours!" "And your music?" She colored, held him closer. "Some day," she whispered, "I shall tell you about that." Late winter morning in Vienna, with the school-children hurrying home, the Alserstrasse alive with humanity soldiers and chimney-sweeps, housewives and beggars.
"Come, Louisa, the horses too will suffer; we must return to our friends." "Oh, there's one book, I can't recollect it; tell me what it is, Henry. I shall be so sorry not to have got it." "Was it the new work on Gregorian Chants?" asked he. "Ah, it's true, I want it for the school-children, but it's not that."
"Oh I do not mean the agreeable side of the character. I meant that you are rather given to ordering people about. You send an incompetent and stupid little priest to take us by the hand, and lead us out of the Casa Perucca like two school-children, without so much as a word of explanation." "But I had not your permission to write to you." Denise laughed gaily.
Upon their return to headquarters, men were covering the front with sheets of coral limestone, two balls having passed through the house in the interval. Mataafa sat within, over his kava bowl, unmoved. The picture is of a piece throughout: excellent courage, super-excellent folly, a war of school-children; expensive guns and cartridges used like squibs or catherine-wheels on Guy Fawkes's Day.
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