[Elsie Venner by Oliver Wendell Holmes ,Sr.]@TWC D-Link bookElsie Venner CHAPTER IV 10/12
There was also a German teacher of music, who sometimes helped in French of the ahfaung and bauntaung style,--so that, between the two, the young ladies could hardly have been mistaken for Parisians, by a Committee of the French Academy.
The German teacher also taught a Latin class after his fashion,--benna, a ben, gahboot, ahead, and so forth. The master for the English branches had lately left the school for private reasons, which need not be here mentioned,--but he had gone, at any rate, and it was his place which had been offered to Mr.Bernard Langdon.
The offer came just in season,--as, for various causes, he was willing to leave the place where he had begun his new experience. It was on a fine morning that Mr.Bernard, ushered in by Mr.Peckham, made his appearance in the great schoolroom of the Apollinean Institute. A general rustle ran all round the seats when the handsome young man was introduced.
The principal carried him to the desk of the young lady English assistant, Miss Darley by name, and introduced him to her. There was not a great deal of study done that day.
The young lady assistant had to point out to the new master the whole routine in which the classes were engaged when their late teacher left, and which had gone on as well as it could since.
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