My master--" "What does your master want ?" "He wishes to see you, ma'am." This was a circumstance entirely without parallel in the domestic history of the house.

In sheer astonishment, Mrs.Gallilee pushed away her letters, and said "Show him in." When the boys of fifty years since were naughty, the schoolmaster of the period was not accustomed to punish them by appealing to their sense of honour.

If a boy wanted a flogging, in those days, the educational system seized a cane, or a birch-rod, and gave it to him.

Mr.Gallilee entered his wife's room, with the feelings which had once animated him, on entering the schoolmaster's study to be caned.

When he said "Good-morning, my dear!" his face presented the expression of fifty years since, when he had said, "Please, sir, let me off this time!" "Now," said Mrs.Gallilee, "what do you want ?" "Only a little word.