[Brownsmith’s Boy by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookBrownsmith’s Boy CHAPTER TWENTY TWO 10/18
And the sooner you are off back to school to be licked into shape the better for you, that is if ever you expect to grow into a man.
Come along, my lad, it's getting late." "Yes, take him away," shouted the boy as I went off with Mr Solomon, my blood seeming to tingle in my veins as I heard a jeering burst of laughter behind me, and directly after the boy shouted: "Here, hi! Courtenay.
Here's a game.
We've got a new pauper in the place." Mr Solomon heard it, but he said nothing as we went on, while I felt very low-spirited again, and was thinking whether I had not better give up learning how to grow fruit and go back to Old Brownsmith, and Ike, and Shock, and Mrs Dodley, when my new guide said to me kindly: "Don't you take any notice of them, my lad." "Them ?" I said in dismay. "Yes, there's a pair of 'em--nice pair too.
But they're often away at school, and Sir Francis is a thorough gentleman.
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