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She succeeded, and she lived till the year 1866, although most of her teaching was done from her sofa. When my mother was asked what it was that made Phin so successful, and so esteemed, she said it was her commonsense. The governesses were well enough, but the invalid old lady was the life and soul of the school.
Morton analyzed the motives and the character of such a sneak, and he did it mercilessly, although in the most parliamentary language. Nor did he look toward the boy, but Phin was squirming under the lash, his face alternately red or ghastly. "For such a scoundrel," continued Mr. Morton, "there is no hope greater than the penitentiary! He is fit for nothing else.
"I guess it won't hurt you to know now somethin' that will be of considerable interest to you later on. I ain't betrayin' nobody's secret, 'cause I said I was goin' to tell you the whole story." "Don't you think you'd better let it come from somebody else, Phin?" interposed his wife nervously. "No, I don't, Eliza. 'Cause why? 'Cause I think he'd ort to know.
"I could do with a whiskey and soda," Monk confessed feebly. "No, not you, please" as Liane offered to withdraw the compassionate hand "Phin isn't busy." Mr. Phinuit hastened to make himself useful. A muted echo of the engine-room telegraph was audible then, and the engines took up again their tireless chant.
"You didn't like the first look of these fellows, Dave, because they had started to cheer for Fordham High School. But did you notice that they cheered no more for Fordham after Reade answered Phin Drayne so forcibly." "It's a fact that these men didn't boost any more for Fordham," assented Dave. "By the way, I have one clear notion in my head!" "What is it?"
Of course it would not make so much difference now if he did; Charlie will be away and doing what all decent people will respect him for doing, and you and I can see that Ruth does not suffer. But I think Babbitt will keep still. I hope I have frightened him; I certainly did my best." Jed rubbed his chin. "I'm kind of sorry for Phin," he observed. "Are you? For heaven's sake, why?"
He had made his peace with many former foes, including Pickering." "Politics is a rotten game, me b'y," he said, by way of explanation. "And I've a family, two little girruls at home. I want thim to remimber their father as something besides a blatherskite phin they grow up. So I'm in a rispictible business again.... There's a new boss now, bad cess to him! Chris Buckley.
"But what good will it do Phin, for you to kiss the Blarney Stone?" asked one of the ladies. "Whist!" said the child, looking about her, and speaking low, as though afraid of being overheard by some one unfriendly to Phin, "it's just a little plot of my own.
Go before the Board of Education? Of course I will. And I'll make any accuser of mine look mighty small before that august board of local duffers!" Brave words! They cheered the young miscreant, anyway. Phin ate his supper with something like relish. Afterwards he set out for the High School building, in which the Board had its offices.
It's an easy doctrine to preach, but, like lots of other preacher's doctrines, it's hard to live up to. Phin loves me like a step-brother and I love him the same way. Well, now here he comes to ask me to do a favor for him. If I don't do it, he'll say, and the whole town'll say, that I'm ventin' my spite on him, keepin' on with my grudge, bein' nasty, cussed, everything that's mean.
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