I am glad to find that it was not of so trifling a nature as I thought for on Michael Ladelle's part, though I am sorry that you, Burnet, treated the note he passed you in so ribald a way.

`You be hanged!' is hardly a gentlemanly way of replying to a historical memorandum or query such as this: `Lanthorn and rope.' Of course, I see the turn your thoughts had taken, Michael." The boys stared at him wonderingly.

While they had been suspecting old Joe Daygo of watching them, had Mr Deane been quietly observing them unnoticed, and had he divined that they were going to take lanthorn and rope that afternoon?
"Of course, history is a grand study," continued the tutor, "and I am glad to see that you have a leaning in that direction; but I like to be thorough.

When we are having lessons on history let us give our minds to it, but when we are treating of algebra let us try to master that.
There--we will say no more.

I am glad, though, that you recall our reading; but try, Michael, to remember some of the other important parts of French history, and don't let your mind dwell too much upon the horrors of the Revolution.