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Springhaven

CHAPTER VIII
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Between these big hinges you can see him; and he looks as young as you do." Miss Dolly, who dearly loved any sly peep, kept her light figure back and the long skirt pulled in, as she brought her bright eyes to the slit between the heavy black door and the stone-work.

And she speedily gave her opinion.
"He is nothing but a regular frump.

I declare I am dreadfully disappointed.

No wonder the title did not come on! He is nothing but a very soft-natured stupe.

Why, the boys can do what they like with him!" Certainly the scholars of the Virgil class, which Blyth Scudamore was dealing with, had recovered from the querimonies of those two sons of Ovid, on the further side of Ister, and were having a good laugh at the face of "Captain Scuddy," as they called their beloved preceptor.


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