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There was a look of recklessness on his face which one could at any time have detected lurking beneath the hard self-control which usually marked him. "I don't feel disposed to apologise, and I am tired of my position here. I must give it up." Dr. Tootle was annoyed. It would not be easy to get another teacher of the kind at so cheap a rate. "Come, you don't mean this," he said.
"It would be a pleasure to teach them if they if they were a little more orderly." "Certainly. If their parents had only common sense " He stopped. A flush had risen to the girl's face, and a slight involuntary motion of her hand seemed to warn him. The reason was that Mrs. Tootle stood in the doorway, to which he had his back turned. Miss Enderby said a quick "good morning" and left him.
"I protest I had not heard a sound, ma'am, or I should have " "Perhaps you hear nothing now, sir, and the doctor suffering from one of his very worst headaches, utterly unable to rest even if the house were perfectly quiet!" O'Gree darted to the door, past Mrs. Tootle, and was lost to sight. There was indeed a desperate uproar in the higher regions of the house.
In the old times they tootled on the tuneful reed, and sang in purest Latin the sweetest ditties ever heard, in praise of Galatea and Amyntas, Delia and Iolla. But they never tootle now, and never sing, and when they speak, their tongue is that of the unmusical barbarians.
She really felt it was very hard lines that she must stay at home when all these people were going to have such a fine time; and they were all so merry, and she could picture to herself so well the delights of the drive and the picnic. She felt very much inclined to cry. But she mustn't go, and she wouldn't go: she repeated that to herself twice as the trumpeter gave a preliminary tootle.
"What are you waiting for, Mr. Waymark?" she asked sharply. "Till your presence has ceased to distract the boys' attention, Mrs. Tootle," was the straightforward reply. The woman was disconcerted, and, as Waymark preserved his calm silence, she had no alternative but to withdraw, after giving him a look not easily forgotten.
"Perhaps we could talk about these things to-morrow." "As you please," said Dr. Tootle, a little surprised at his assistant's indifference. It was a drawing-lesson morning. As he went upstairs, his ears apprised him of the state of things he would find in Miss Enderby's room.
'What is it, Tootle? demanded Miss Abbey. 'It's a foreign steamer, miss, run down a wherry. 'How many in the wherry? 'One man, Miss Abbey. 'Found? 'Yes. He's been under water a long time, Miss; but they've grappled up the body. 'Let 'em bring it here. You, Bob Gliddery, shut the house-door and stand by it on the inside, and don't you open till I tell you. Any police down there?
And now he begins to breathe naturally, and he stirs, and the doctor declares him to have come back from that inexplicable journey where he stopped on the dark road, and to be here. Tom Tootle, who is nearest to the doctor when he says this, grasps the doctor fervently by the hand.
He had not seen her since the uproar which had terminated his connection with the young Tootles. Was it true that she had then already decided to give up her position? If not, his outbreak of temper had doubtless resulted unpleasantly for her, seeing that Mrs. Tootle would almost certainly dismiss her out of mere spite.
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