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Updated: June 23, 2025
"Master Thomas Rover, do you know anything of your brother Richard?" asked an under-teacher. "Perhaps he is having a talk with Mr. Grinder," said Tom. "Oh!" Then the under-teacher noticed that Mr. Grinder's chair was also vacant, and said no more. While the boys were eating, Peleg Snuggers came to the door and looked carefully about the mess hall.
"Dead?" said Mr. Tulliver, sharply, looking in her face with a strange, examining glance. "Yes, he died of apoplexy nearly a year ago. I remember hearing you say you had to pay money for him; and he left his daughters badly off; one of them is under-teacher at Miss Firniss's, where I've been to school, you know." "Ah?" said her father, doubtfully, still looking in her face.
They all loved Captain Victor Putnam, the owner of the institution, and it may be added here that the captain thought as much of the Rovers as he did of any of the scholars under him, and that was a good deal. The coming of Jasper Grinder as a new under-teacher was a shock to many of the boys at the school.
The child, finding herself after a certain length of time thrown upon the charity of her former instructors, was glad to become under-teacher in their school. The rest of her history may be told in a few words. From under-teacher she became head-teacher, and at eighteen passed as governess into a private family.
She was at once the first scholar in the school, and became for slow and lazy Leon a sort of sisterly counsellor and affectionate under-teacher.
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