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But Philip the Prudent remained, and Elizabeth of England, and Henry of France and Navarre, and John of Olden-Barneveld; and there was still another personage, a very young man still, but a deep-thinking, hard-working student, fagging steadily at mathematics and deep in the works of Stevinus, who, before long, might play a conspicuous part in the world's great drama.
Get on a winner at forty to one, and you could make as much in one bet as a poor devil of a bookie could in six months, fagging from race-course to race-course. They drank, argued, and quarrelled, until Esther noticed that Sarah was looking very pale. Old John was quite helpless; Journeyman, who seemed to know what he was doing, very kindly promised to look after him.
The last straw breaks the camel's back, and the young Dominicans had now reached the point of desperation. It was long before silence enough could be restored, and then the redoubtable Spicer yelled out, "Let's strike!" The cry was taken up with yells of enthusiasm "Strike! No more fagging!" "Any boy who fags after this," screamed Bramble, "will be cut dead!
His idea of a school house was of a vigorous and jolly community, living together on terms of friendly equality such as reduced fagging and the oligarchial "prefect system" to a minimum, and uniting in a real effort to keep abreast with the great world outside by means of a co-operative study of politics and the Press.
Naturally, the late attempt to introduce fagging was discussed, and the part Bracebridge had taken in suppressing it was openly spoken of. Thus, not only did all the boys in the school learn all about it, but it came to the ears of the masters, and, finally, to those of the Doctor himself. Monsieur Malin had heard of it before, but he had judged it best to let things take their course.
"I hope that is not coming up. You know I'm heretic enough to believe that a certain amount of fagging does not do harm in a school like ours." "Certainly not," said Mr Jellicott. "But these small boys are really very amusing. They appear to be regularly organised, and some of them have quite a martyr spirit about them."
Two months had gone by, two months of steady, fagging work; of cooking, washing, ironing; of mending and caring for the three children, although Jenny was fast becoming a notable little housewife, quick, ready, and capable.
I'm sorry sorry, do you hear? the whole lot were not sacked. And now you can hook it. I've said enough, perhaps too much, but I believe I can trust you." After this John showed his gratitude by painstaking attention to fagging.
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