You have already made a position for yourself in the schoolhouse.
You will have to quit that, of course, and start afresh and single- handed in the new house, and it is not likely that those who defy the rules of the school will take at first to a fellow who comes to enforce them.

Think it all over, I say, and decide with open eyes." The doctor's words had a strange inspiriting effect on this shy and diffident boy.

The recital of all the difficulties in the way was the most powerful argument to a nature like his, and when at length the doctor wished him good-night and told him to take till the following day to decide, Riddell was already growing accustomed to the prospect of his new duty.
For all that, the day that ensued was anxious and troubled.

Not so much on account of Welch's.

On that point his mind was pretty nearly made up.