Don't you know that I expect the sixth to stop fighting ?" Brooke felt much more uncomfortable than he had expected, but he was rather a favourite with the Doctor for his openness and plainness of speech, so blurted out, as he walked by the Doctor's side, who had already turned back,-- "Yes, sir, generally.

But I thought you wished us to exercise a discretion in the matter too--not to interfere too soon." "But they have been fighting this half-hour and more," said the Doctor.
"Yes, sir; but neither was hurt.

And they're the sort of boys who'll be all the better friends now, which they wouldn't have been if they had been stopped, any earlier--before it was so equal." "Who was fighting with Brown ?" said the Doctor.
"Williams, sir, of Thompson's.

He is bigger than Brown, and had the best of it at first, but not when you came up, sir.

There's a good deal of jealousy between our house and Thompson's, and there would have been more fights if this hadn't been let go on, or if either of them had had much the worst of it." "Well but, Brooke," said the Doctor, "doesn't this look a little as if you exercised your discretion by only stopping a fight when the School-house boy is getting the worst of it ?" Brooke, it must be confessed, felt rather gravelled.
"Now remember," added the Doctor, as he stopped at the turret-door, "this fight is not to go on; you'll see to that.