The whole staff of instructors, male and female, he set aside, and stood on the examiner's estrade alone.

It irked him that he was forced to make one exception to this rule.

He could not manage English: he was obliged to leave that branch of education in the English teacher's hands; which he did, not without a flash of naive jealousy.
A constant crusade against the "amour-propre" of every human being but himself, was the crotchet of this able, but fiery and grasping little man.

He had a strong relish for public representation in his own person, but an extreme abhorrence of the like display in any other.

He quelled, he kept down when he could; and when he could not, he fumed like a bottled storm.
On the evening preceding the examination-day, I was walking in the garden, as were the other teachers and all the boarders.