"Your new doctrine too, old fellow," added he, "when one comes to think of it, is a cutting at the root of all school morality.

You'll take away mutual help, brotherly love, or, in the vulgar tongue, giving construes, which I hold to be one of our highest virtues.

For how can you distinguish between getting a construe from another boy and using a crib?
Hang it, Tom, if you're going to deprive all our school-fellows of the chance of exercising Christian benevolence and being good Samaritans, I shall cut the concern." "I wish you wouldn't joke about it, Harry; it's hard enough to see one's way--a precious sight harder than I thought last night.

But I suppose there's a use and an abuse of both, and one'll get straight enough somehow.

But you can't make out, anyhow, that one has a right to use old vulgus-books and copy-books." "Hullo, more heresy! How fast a fellow goes downhill when he once gets his head before his legs.