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Updated: June 24, 2025
Was it anything out of the way that Rupert's trips became more frequent, and that the fair-haired Norwegian looked longingly down the road for the school-master's horse? Rupert did not try to deceive himself. It had been a year only since his experience with Virginia Wilton.
"Cynical" might seem a hard word with which to repay this compliment of trust; but it is not, for there is really no compliment and no trust. The parent does not really believe in the school-master's judgment.
What help did he seek in this girl? His keen, deep eyes never left her unconscious face. "No," Mr. Howth went on, having the field to himself, "we left Order back there in the ages you call dark, and Progress will trumpet the world into the ditch." "Comte!" growled the Doctor. The school-master's cane beat an angry tattoo on the hearth. "You sneer at Comte?
Then perhaps from the old habit and need of following a sermon with a hymn, he said quite simply: "Would you like a little music? It is the Good-bye of the Flute to you and a pleasant journey." The school-master's head had dropped quickly upon his arms, which were crossed over the back of his chair.
With the Roman school-master's method of teaching for the benefit of the Roman youth of the day we have no concern at present, but we can gather from the references made by him the estimation in which various orations were held by others, as well as by him, in his day.
"No;" he looked up full in the school-master's face, although his voice was choked. "My dear child, I will stand by you as long as I live." The school-master waited for Oyvind until the latter had gathered together his books, then said that he would accompany him home. They walked slowly along. At first Oyvind was silent and his struggle went on, but gradually he gained his self-control.
As we neared the school-master's house, where Stuart was next taking me, we came again upon the boys with Josey, and no barkeeper at hand to "see him through." But Josey made it needless. At the word "Chicken-legs" he flew in a limber manner upon the nearest, and knocking him immediately flat, turned with spirit upon a second and kicked him.
At times a cloud, passing beneath the sun, threw the shop into heavier shadow; and then the school-master's dark figure faded into the tone of the sooty wall behind him and only his face, with the contrast of its white linen collar below and the bare discernible lights of his auburn hair above his face, proud, resolute, astounded, pallid, suffering started out of the gloom like a portrait from an old canvas.
Early in the morning, they removed the school-master's bottle, and replaced it by theirs, and hurried back to their places, panting with restrained curiosity, and a desire to see what results would come from their medical mixture. The accustomed hour for intermission came.
And despite the school-master's protest, Dean Drake tucked his buffalo coat round and over him. "Some day, when I'm old," he went on, "I mean to live respectable under my own cabin and vine. Wife and everything. But not, anyway, till I'm thirty-five."
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