He therefore quietly let the paper drop to the floor, and kept on with his lesson.
John Haynes perceived that he had failed in his benevolent purpose of disturbing Frank's tranquillity, and this, I am sorry to say, only increased the dislike he felt for him.

Nothing is so unreasonable as anger, nothing so hard to appease.

John even felt disposed to regard as an insult the disposition which Frank had made of his insulting query.
"The young clodhopper's on his dignity," he muttered to himself.

"Well, wait a few months, and see if he won't sing a different tune." Just then John's class was called up, and his dislike to Frank was not diminished by the superiority of his recitation.

The latter, undisturbed by John's feelings, did not give a thought to him, but reflected with a touch of pain that this must be his last Latin recitation in school for a long time to come..