That we would have handed our blooming princess to him was full proof of our abhorrence of Boddy.

I might have thought with the other boys that she was growing prettier, only I never could imagine her so delicious as when she smiled at my father.
The consequence of the enlistment of the whole school in Heriot's interests was that at cricket-matches, picnics on the hills, and boating on the canal, Mr.Boddy was begirt with spies, and little Temple reported to Heriot a conversation that he, lying hidden in tall grass, had heard between Boddy and Julia.

Boddy asked her to take private lessons in French from him.

Heriot listened to the monstrous tale as he was on the point of entering Julia's boat, where Boddy sat beside her, and Heriot rowed stroke-oar.

He dipped his blade, and said, loud enough to be heard by me in Catman's boat, 'Do you think French useful in a military education, sir ?' And Boddy said, 'Yes, of course it is.' Says Heriot, 'Then I think I shall take lessons.' Boddy told him he was taking lessons in the school.
'Oh!' says Heriot, 'I mean private lessons'; and here he repeated one of Temple's pieces of communication: 'so much more can be imparted in a private lesson!' Boddy sprang half up from his seat.