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He said enthusiasms were salt to a man; and he liked Shalders for spelling at his battles and thinking he understood them, and admiring Murat, and leading Virgil and parts of Lucan for his recreation. He said he liked the French because they could be splendidly enthusiastic.
It was all very well for Mr. Shalders to say he talked to boys; he was cornered again, as his shrug confessed. The boys asked among themselves whether he would have taken the same view if his Murat had done it! These illogical boys fought for Matey Weyburn in their defence of Lord Ormont. Somewhere, they wee sure, old Matey was hammering to the same end they could hear him.
Shalders to sustain his argument; with his "men are mortal," and talk of a true living champion as "no chicken," and the wordy drawl over "justification for calculating the approach of a close to a term of activity" in the case of a proved hero! Guardians of boys should make sure that the boys are on their side before they raise the standard of virtue.
Shalders has joined the Dragoons, has he?" "The worthy man has a happy imagination. He goes through a campaign daily." "It seems to one to dignify his calling." "I like his enthusiasm." The lady withdrew into her thoughts; Weyburn fell upon his work.
Matey sounded the queer word so as to fix it sticking to the usher, calling him Mr. Peter Bell Shalders, at which the boys roared, and there was a question or two about names, which belonged to verses, for people caring to read poems.
The boys had come to know that Browny admired Lord Ormont, so they saw a double reason why Matey should; and walking home at his grand swing in the October dusk, their school hero drew their national hero closer to them. Every fellow present was dead against the usher, Mr. Shalders, when he took advantage of a pause to strike in with his "Murat!" He harped on Murat whenever he had a chance.
It was all very well for Mr. Shalders to say he talked to boys; he was cornered again, as his shrug confessed. The boys asked among themselves whether he would have taken the same view if his Murat had done it! These illogical boys fought for Matey Weyburn in their defence of Lord Ormont. Somewhere, they wee sure, old Matey was hammering to the same end they could hear him.
To the joy of the school he displayed a greater knowledge of Murat than Shalders had: named the different places in Europe where Lord Ormont and Murat were both springing to the saddle at the same time one a Marshal, the other a lieutenant; one a king, to be off his throne any day, the other a born English nobleman, seated firm as fate.
Why speak of him in the past? He is an English lord, a lord by birth, and he is alive; things may be expected of him to-morrow or next day. Shalders here cut Matey short by meanly objecting to that.
Shalders was cornered by the boys, coming at him one after another without a stop, vowing it was the exercise of a military judgement upon a military question at a period of urgency, which had brought about the quarrel with the Commissioner and the reproof of the Governor. He betrayed the man completely cornered by generalizing. He said
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