[Eric by Frederic William Farrar]@TWC D-Link bookEric CHAPTER VIII 14/21
There could be no more perilous example for the school, than the one you have been setting, Williams.
Leave the room," he added, with an authoritative gesture, "my mind is made up." But Eric was too excited to be overawed by the master's manner; an imperious passion blinded him to all ordinary considerations, and, heedless of the command, he broke out again-- "O sir, try me but once, _only_ try me.
I promise you most faithfully that I will never again commit the sin.
O sir, do, do trust me, and I will be responsible for Wildney too." Dr.Rowlands, seeing that in Eric's present mood he must and would be heard, unless he were ejected by actual force, began to pace silently up and down the room in perplexed and anxious thought; at last he stopped and turned over the pages of a thick school register, and found Eric's name. "It is not your first offence, Williams, even of this very kind.
That most seriously aggravates your fault." "O sir! give us one more chance to mend.
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