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Updated: June 24, 2025
"He will be number one, after all; but it is not worth while that he should know anything about it until the day comes." "No, no," said the father, and nodded. "No, no," said the mother, and she nodded too; after which she grasped the school-master's hand and added: "We thank you for all you do for him." "Yes, you have our thanks," said the father, and the school-master moved away.
But though, of course, being a school-master's son, I did not believe in ghosts I admit that the return journey was the more pleasant of the two, especially after I got within cry of the dwellings of comfortable burgesses, and felt the windows all alight on either side of me, so near that I could almost touch them with my hand. Not that I saw anything! I knew from the first it was all nonsense.
The first letter was written; and an answer arrived in due course two days, the school-master said, after date. No other person knew of this scheme for the undoing of the post-mistress, yet in a very short time the school-master's coming marriage was the talk of Thrums. Everybody became suddenly aware of the lady's name, of her abode, and of the sum of money she was to bring her husband.
His father kept a school here; there were five children, four boys and a girl to provide for, and as there was nothing to depend on but the school-master's pay, it is easy to see the family was in poor circumstances, though the wife managed most carefully to make ends meet. They were a very devoted family altogether.
Jerome gave the school-master a look of such entire comprehension and consequent scorn that he fairly cast down his eyes before him; then he went out with his books under his arm. He paid for his few lessons with the first money he could save, in spite of the school-master's remonstrances. After that Jerome went on doggedly with his studies by himself, and asked assistance from nobody.
Two hours later the school-master's horse shied from those black ruins, and John Burnham kept on toward school with a troubled face.
Thinking on the lasses at thy age! You're the chap, they tell me, that's been walkin' out my daughter in broad daylight! Well, well, cannot find it in my heart to be too hard did the like mysel' thirty years ago, and never regretted it. School-master's son, aren't ye? Thought I kenned ye by sight! Student lad at the College of Edinburgh?
Between dances the people crowded around him as if it did them good just to look at him. Gertrude thought Ingmar had entirely forgotten her, which made her quite miserable. "Now he feels that he is the son of Big Ingmar, and that I am only the school-master's Gertrude," she pouted. It seemed strange to her that she should take this so to heart.
He could see a flickering light at dawn crossing the hall: he remembered the old school-master's habit well, calling "Happy Christmas" at every door: he meant to go down there for breakfast, as he used to do, imagining how the old man would wring his hands, with a "Holloa! you're welcome home, Stephen, boy!" and Mrs.
It sank into his books, it thrust itself beneath every word the school-master spoke, it lurked in the school-room when all was still. It caused him to be obedient and reverent, and to have an easier apprehension as it were of everything that was taught him. The history ran thus: The school-master's name was Baard, and he once had a brother whose name was Anders.
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