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Channing; and all were willing to tender a word of sympathy respecting Charles. Possibly Mr. Yorke had also another motive: if so, we shall come to it in due time. Mr. Pye stayed only a few minutes. He did not say a word about the seniorship, neither did Mr. Channing to him. What, indeed, could either of them say? The subject was unpleasant on both sides; therefore it was best avoided.
I don't know that I can allow this wholesale changing of places and functions." "Oh yes, you can, sir," said Harry, with a bright look. "If I committed any unworthy act, I should be degraded from the seniorship, and another appointed. The same thing can be done now, without the degradation." "He deserves a recompense," said Mr. Huntley to the master.
Tom Channing is bearing the brunt of this false accusation on his brother, which some of the cowards are casting to him. It would be too bad were Pye to deprive him of the seniorship!" "You think the accusation on Arthur Channing to be a false one?" returned the dean. "There never was a more false accusation brought in this world," replied Roland, relapsing into excitement.
Huntley's voice was heard, calling him into the breakfast-room. "Harry," said he, "I don't think that I need enjoin you not to suffer your manner to show triumph towards Tom Channing, should you be promoted over him to-day." "I shan't be, papa. Channing will have the seniorship." "How do you know that?" "Oh, from something Pye let drop. We look upon it that Channing is as good as senior." Mr.
"But this will be no recompense; it is Channing's due. He will make you a better senior than Harry, Mr. Pye. And now," added Mr. Huntley, improving upon the whole, "there will be no necessity to separate the seniorship from the Oxford exhibition." It was rather a free and easy mode of dealing with the master's privileges, and Mr. Pye relaxed into a smile.
"If he gets the seniorship, the exhibition will follow; that is an understood thing. Would it be just?" "Why are you saying this? What have you heard?" "Well, it is a roundabout tale," answered Tom. "But the rumour in the school is this and if it turns out to be true, Gerald Yorke will about get eaten up alive." "Is that the rumour, Tom?" said Mrs. Channing. Tom laughed, in spite of his anger.
"Had any one of those three done such a thing accident or no accident and not declared it, he'd get his name struck off the rolls. A junior may be pardoned for things that a senior cannot." "Besides, there'd be the losing his chance of the seniorship, and of the exhibition," cried one from the throng of boys in the rear. "How are you progressing for the seniorship?" asked Arthur, of the three.
Galloway, in his office, that her son was to have the seniorship; that Mr. Pye had promised it to her and Dr. Burrows, at the dinner-party. She spoke of it without the least reserve, in a tone of much self-gratulation, and she laughingly told Jenkins, who was at his desk writing, that he might wish Gerald joy when he next saw him. Jenkins accepted it all as truth: it may be questioned if Mr.
Were you in the game with old Ketch, to-night?" "What game?" inquired Tod, innocently. But at this moment Gerald, hearing Tom's voice, came out of the sitting-room. Gerald Yorke had a little cooled down from his resentment against Tom. Since the decision of the previous day, nearly all Gerald's wrath had been turned upon Mr. Pye, because that gentleman had not exalted him to the seniorship.
The excitement caused in the college school by the rumour of Lady Augusta Yorke's having obtained the promise of the head-master that her son should be promoted to the seniorship over the heads of Channing and Huntley, had been smouldering ominously, and gathering greater strength from the very fact that the boys appeared to be powerless in it.
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