I'm afraid I am a great deal too good-natured with you.

I shall have to send a dozen of you up to be caned." "No, you couldn't do that if you tried, Captain Scuddy.

But what are you thinking of, all this time?
There are two pretty ladies in riding-habits peeping at you from the bell porch.

Why, you have got sweethearts, Captain Scuddy! What a shame of you never to have told us!" The youngest and fairest of all the boys there could scarcely have blushed more deeply than their classical tutor did, as he stooped for his hat, and shyly went between the old desks to the door in the porch.
All the boys looked after him with the deepest interest, and made up their minds to see everything he did.

This was not at all what he desired, and the sense of it increased his hesitation and confusion.