You have been in the wrong.
I say to you, as a brave man, do not make yourself more wrong.

Meester Beekaire would help you very much to make yourself more wrong.

Do not let him help you, I say." Unpalatable as it was, there was some force in his visitor's advice, which Railsford was bound to admit.

Poor monsieur was not a shining example of successful dealing with his fellow-masters.

Still, out of the mouth of the simple one may sometimes hear a home truth.
The masters' session was a periodical conference of the Grandcourt masters, half social, half business, for the purpose of talking over matters of common school interest, discussing points of management, and generally exchanging ideas on what was passing in the little world of which they were the controllers.