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He told Kennedy old Harton stories, and asked him about Marlby; he turned the subject to Home, and really interested Kennedy by telling him what kind of a boy Julian had been, and what inseparable friends he had always been with Lillyston, and how admirably he had recited on speech-day, and how stainless his whole life had been, and how vice and temptation seemed to skulk away at his very look.
Povey and Constance had quite accustomed themselves to being the parents of 'a great lad, before Cyril had broken the glass of his miraculous watch more than once, the summer term had come to a end and there arrived the excitations of the prize-giving, as it was called; for at that epoch the smaller schools had not found the effrontery to dub the breaking-up ceremony a 'speech-day. This prize-giving furnished a particular joy to Mr. and Mrs.
I still, Rachel, have the gold etui your papa gave me when he came to our speech-day at Kensington, and we two performed the quarrel of Brutus and Cassius out of Shakspeare; and 'twas only yesterday morning I was dreaming that we were both called up to say our lesson before the awful Miss Hardwood, and that I did not know it, and that as usual Miss Rachel Esmond went above me.
Gilbertson was a fellow-master, and one of the committee for arranging the Speech-day entertainment. For the rest he was a nervously fussy little man, and met Mark with evident embarrassment. 'Well, Gilbertson, said Mark, as unconcernedly as he could, 'settled your programme yet? 'Er oh yes, quite settled quite, that is, not definitely as yet. 'And my little production?
Whatever he thought of, he was too engaged to notice Mark, who followed him with his eyes as he slowly worked his way up the flight of stone steps which led to the street level. 'Shall I ever come to that? he thought. 'If I stay here all my life, I may. Ah, there's Gilbertson he can tell me about this Speech-day business.
It was Speech-day at Harton. From an early hour handsome equipages had been dashing down the street, and depositing their occupants at the masters' houses. The perpetual rolling of wheels distracted the attention every moment, and curiosity was keenly on the alert to catch a glimpse of the various magnates whose arrival was expected.
Byron, writing to John Murray, May 26, 1822, and giving directions for the burial of poor little Allegra's body, says "I wish it to be buried in Harrow Church. See also "Lines written beneath an elm in the churchyard of Harrow," in "Hours of Idleness." "Speecher" i.e. Speech-Day. At Harrow "er" is a favourite termination of many substantives.
The prize boys on the front benches kept up a running fire of talk and cheering; the masters in their gowns beamed right and left, as if all of them put together could not give a fellow a hundred lines if he asked for it; and the college servants, grouped at the doors, smiled as if no cloud had ever ruffled their temper since last speech-day: while the doctor, as he rose, resplendent in his academical robes, and called for silence, looked as if no more solemn question had engaged his attention all the term than the arrangement of his strings and the droop of the scarlet hood on his back.
Then speech-day began. My readers hardly want me to describe so familiar a scene.
This was the time-honoured cheering with which speech-day at Grandcourt always came to an end. Smedley and the prefects walked in procession to the head table and ranged themselves behind the head governor's chair, while everyone stood up. "Three cheers for Grandcourt!" called the captain. And you may fancy the earthquake that ensued. Then in regular order followed "Three cheers for the doctor!"
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