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Eric

CHAPTER IV
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MR.

ROSE AND BRIGSON "Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede Poena claudo."-- HOR.
After prayers the next morning Dr.Rowlands spoke to his boarders on the previous day's discovery, and in a few forcible vivid words set before them, the enormity of the offence.

He ended by announcing that the boys who were caught would be birched,--"except the elder ones, Bull and Brigson, who will bring me one hundred lines every hour of the half-holidays till further notice.

There are some," he said, "I am well aware, who, though present yesterday, were not detected.

I am sorry for it, for _their_ sakes; they will be more likely to sin again.


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