A nice wash at the pump, and a chilly key applied to my eye, reanimated me amazingly. Escorted at two or 3 of the schoolfellows, I hiked family via the jolly autumn twilight, battered but triumphant. As I went along, my crown cocked on an side to keep the cold wind from my eye, I felt that I was no merely following my nose,
herve leger wholesale, but emulating it so closely, namely I was in some peril of treading on it. I appeared to have nose ample because the whole gathering. My left impudence, likewise, was puffed out like a dumpling. I couldn't help saying to myself, "If this namely victory, how approximately that additional guy? "
"Tom, " said Harry Blake, hesitating.
"Well? "
"Did you see Mr. Grimshaw seeing out of the recitation-room window fair for we left the yard? "
"No was he, though? "
"I am sure of it. "
"Then he must have seen always the row. "
"Shouldn't surprise. "
"No, he didn't, " broke in Adams, "alternatively he would have stopped it short metre; but I surmise be saw you pitching into the pump which you did uncommonly mighty -- and of way be smelt mischief instantly. "
"Well, it can't be helped immediately, " I reflected.
" -- As the monkey said while he fell out of the cocoanut tree, " added Charley Marden, trying to make me smile.
It was early candle-light when we approached the house. Miss Abigail, beginning the front gate, began behind at my hilarious appearance. I attempted to smile upon her sweetly, but the smile, rippling over my swollen audacity, and dying away like a spent wave on my nose, produced one wording of which Miss Abigail alleged she had never seen the like excepting on the face of a Chinese idol.
She hustled me unceremoniously into the presence of my grandfather in the sitting-room. Captain Nutter, as the recognized vocational knight of our household, could no consistently take me to mission for fighting Conway; neither was he disposed to do so; for the Captain was well conscious of the long-continued prompting I had endured.
"Ah, you rogue! " cried the old gentleman, behind listening my story. "Just like me when I was young -- all in one kind of distress alternatively distinct. I trust it runs in the kin. "
"I muse, " said Miss Abigail, without the faintest statement on her countenance, "that a table-spoonful of hot-dro -- " The Captain disturbed Miss Abigail peremptorily, directing her to make a shade out of cardboard and black silk to tie over my eye. Miss Abigail must have been possessed with the fancy that I had taken up pugilism as a career, for she rotated out no fewer than 6 of these blinders.
"They'll be handy to have in the house, " says Miss Abigail, grimly.
Of course, so magnificent a gap of penalty was no to be passed over by Mr. Grimshaw. He had, as we suspected, witnessed the closing scene of the fight from the school-room window, and the next a.m., behind prayers, I was not wholly unprepared when Master Conway and myself were cried up to the desk for exam. Conway, with a chip of court-plaster in the shape of a Maltese across on his right cheek, and I with the silk patch over my left eye, caused a general titter via the chamber.
"Silence! " said Mr. Grimshaw, sharply.
As the reader namely already familiar with the leading points in the circumstance of Bailey versus Conway, I shall not report the trial further than to say that Adams, Marden, and several other pupils proved to the truth that Conway had levied on me even now my premier day by the Temple School. Their evidence also went to show that Conway was a quarrelsome role generally. Bad for Conway. Seth Rodgers, on the part of his friend, testified that I had struck the 1st beat. That was bad for me.
"If you please, sir,
herve leger stores, " said Binny Wallace, holding up his hand for permission to talk, "Bailey didn't fight on his own account; he fought on my list, and, whether you please, sir, I am the boy to be blamed, for I was the occasion of the difficulty. "
This drew out the story of Conway's coarse management of the smaller boys. As Binny narrated the wrongs of his playfellows, saying quite little of his own grievances, I placarded that Mr. Grimshaw's hand, unknown to himself perhaps, rested easily at intervals on Wallace's bright hair. The checkup finished, Mr. Grimshaw leaned on the desk thoughtfully for a moment and then said:
"Every boy in this educate knows that it namely against the rules to fight. If one boy maltreats different, within school-bounds, or among school-hours, that is a stuff for me to bench. The case ought be arranged before me. I oppose of tale-bearing, I not encourage it in the slightest degree; but when one pupil systematically persecutes a schoolmate, it is the obligation of some head-boy to accuse me. No pupil has a right to take the decree into his own hands. If there is any fighting to be done, I am the person to be consulted. I oppose of boys' fighting; it is needless and unchristian. In the present instance, I consider every massive boy in this school at fault, but as the offence is one of omission preferably than commission, my discipline must recess merely on the 2 boys convicted of misdemeanor. Conway loses his vacation for a month, and Bailey has a sheet joined to his Latin lessons for the next four recitations.
I now apply Bailey and Conway to shake hands in the presence of the school, and grant their regret at what has occurred. "
Conway and I approached each other slowly and carefully, as whether we were bent upon another hostile collision. We buttoned hands in the tamest means imaginable, and Conway whispered, "I'm sorry I fought with you. "
"I calculate you are, " I replied, drily, "and I'm apologetic I had to thrash you. "
"You tin work to your seats, " said Mr. Grimshaw, turning his face aside to conceal a smile. I am sure my remorse was a very agreeable one.
I never had any more trouble with Conway. He and his eclipse, Seth Rodgers,
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