The consequence was, that I was severely hurt, and _might_ have been seriously injured in entering the lavatory.

I must know the name of the delinquent." Upton and Eric immediately stood up.

Dr.Rowlands looked surprised, and there was an expression of grieved interest in Mr.Rose's face.
"Very well," said the Doctor, "I shall speak to you both privately." Twelve o'clock came, and Duncan and Eric received a severe caning.
Corporal punishment, however necessary and desirable for some dispositions, always produced on Eric the worst effects.

He burned, not with remorse or regret, but with shame and violent indignation, and listened, with a glare in his eye, to Dr.Rowlands' warnings.

When the flogging was over, he almost rushed out of the room, to choke in solitude his sense of humiliation, nor would he suffer any one for an instant to allude to his disgrace.