3/11 Two boys had been horsed and brushed up well, which had strengthened the conscience of all the rest, while sobs and rubs of the part affected diffused a tender silence. Dr.Swinks, the head-master, was leaning back in his canopied oaken chair, with the pride inspired by noble actions. There is scarcely a boy looking off his book. But how old he does look! I suppose it must be the effect of so much hard teaching." "You silly thing," her sister answered; "you are looking at the great head-master. Mr.Scudamore is here at the bottom of the school. |