He regretted only the deficiency of his pupil in certain minor but important matters.

I came next, for I stood next to Gerald in our class.

As I walked up the hall, I raised my eyes to the gallery in which my uncle and his party sat.

I saw that my mother was listening to the Abbe, whose eye, severe, cold, and contemptuous, was bent upon me.

But my uncle leaned over the railing of the gallery, with his plumed hat in his hand, which, when he caught my look, he waved gently,--as if in token of encouragement, and with an air so kind and cheering, that I felt my step grow prouder as I approached the conclave of the masters.
"Morton Devereux," said the president of the school, in a calm, loud, austere voice, that filled the whole hall, "we have looked over your papers on the three previous days, and they have given us no less surprise than pleasure.