"I didn't know he was to be dux in mischief as well as out of it." "You can't call it mischief, papa, to resent an unwarranted encroachment of our rights by such an old ruffian as that.

One's blood is up to think of the things he has done!" "He richly deserves it, no doubt," said the doctor, "and yet I wish you had been out of the row.

If there is any blame, you will be the first it will light on." "I am glad of it, that is but just.

Anderson and I seem to have stirred it up--if it wanted stirring--for it was in every fellow there; indeed, I had no notion it was coming to this when I began." "Oratory," said the doctor, smiling.

"Ha, Norman! Think a little another time, my boy, before you take the law into your own hands, or, what is worse, into a lot of hands you can't control for good, though you may excite them to harm." Dr.Hoxton did not come into school at the usual hour, and, in the course of the morning, sent for May senior, to speak to him in his study.
He looked very broad, awful, and dignified, as he informed him that Mr.
Tomkins had just been with him to complain of the damage that had been done, and he appeared extremely displeased that the dux should have been no check on such proceedings.
"I am sorry, sir," said Norman, "but I believe it was the general feeling that he had no right to stop the alley, and, therefore, that it could not be wrong to break it down." "Whether he has a right or not is not a question to be settled by you.
So I find that you, whose proper office it is to keep order, have been inflaming the mischievous and aggressive spirit amongst the others.