Had the monitorial system existed, that contagion could have been checked at once; but, as it was, brute force the unlimited authority.

Ill indeed are those informed who raise a cry, and join in the ignorant abuse of that noble safeguard of English schools.

Any who have had personal and intimate experience of how schools work _with_ it and _without_ it, know what a Palladium it is of happiness and morality; how it prevents bullying, upholds manliness, is the bulwark of discipline, and makes boys more earnest and thoughtful, often at the most critical period of their lives, by enlisting all their sympathies and interests on the side of the honorable and the just.
Brigson knew at a glance whom he had most to fear; Bull, Attlay, Llewellyn, Graham, all tolerated or even approved of him.

Owen did not come in his way, so he left him unmolested.

To Eric and Duncan he was scrupulously civil, and by flattery and deference managed to keep apparently on excellent terms with them.