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But the peril of his beloved Cathedral so haunted him that he arrived at the school-door as one distraught.
Rehearsal always took place in the girls' schoolroom, the boys coming in from their part of the building to clear the desks away and arrange them close along the walls.

They were busy at it when he entered.

He saw: but-- "He heeded not--his eyes Were with his heart," And that was in the Close outside--anthi, phile en patridi gaie.
From the start he allowed the rehearsal to get hopelessly out of hand.

The children took charge; they grew more and more fractious, unruly.

Miss Champernowne chid them in vain.