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Updated: June 21, 2025
"She requires me to be on my good behaviour as if I were a school-boy out for a half-holiday, and thinks it her duty to entertain me by way of reward, I suppose."
The school began, as almost all schools do, toward the middle of September, and it was on a certain afternoon in a very sunny and warm October that Lucy invited little Agnes Frost to take a walk with her. She did this feeling sure that the child would come willingly, for both Irene and Rosamund were spending the half-holiday at The Follies.
You can be conveniently absent. Mrs. Perrault will take me down there; she speaks no English, and it is not likely he can speak French." "We can arrange that." "Then it is settled, and all I hope for is a good day to-morrow." Mrs. Mason sprang up and kissed the fair Bostonian, and Mason felt a sensation of joyous freedom that recalled his youthful days when a half-holiday was announced.
She stood still also, and he saw a thought move across her face. "Not immediately but perhaps when Mr. Langhope can make some other arrangement " Owing to the half-holiday they had the school-building to themselves, and the fact of being alone with her, without fear of interruption, woke in Amherst an uncontrollable longing to taste for once the joy of unguarded utterance.
'Indeed, the growth of the Saturday half-holiday since my young days is a remarkable instance of Judaizing. 'So we have to remain dispersed to promote the week-end holiday? 'To teach international truth, Sir Asher corrected sharply; 'not narrow tribalism. 'But we don't remain dispersed. Five millions are herded in the Russian Pale to begin with.
This in itself would have troubled him little. To be kept in on a half-holiday is annoying, but it is one of those ills which the flesh is heir to, and your true philosopher can always take his gruel like a man.
Selina roundly declared him a beast, pointing out that he had not even got us a half-holiday; and, indeed, there seemed little to do but to pass sentence. We were about to put it, when Harold appeared on the scene; his red face, round eyes, and mysterious demeanour, hinting at awful portents.
My father tipped the head boy for the benefit of the school, and following lunch with the master and his daughter, to whom I gave a kiss at her request, a half-holiday was granted to the boys in my name. How they cheered!
They had a gaol, the prisoners of which in early days were sometimes let out for a half-holiday, with the warning from the gaoler, Johnnie Barr, that if they did not come back by eight o'clock they would be locked out for the night. The usual dress of the settlers was a blue shirt, moleskin or corduroy trousers, and a slouch hat.
After dinner, a half-holiday having been given the school-children, Teddy stole out to the woods. When out of sight he began a brisk conversation with himself, as was his wont; and it may give us an insight into his busy brain if we listen. 'Blackey might do, or Goggles, or Grubby, or Nigger, or Toad. I want to have some name, else I shan't be able to talk to him so well.
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