I should like to see you try that again.

You had better keep quiet." A resolute glance of the keen, black eye, resolute, yet twinkling with secret merriment, and he was about to commence another stanza.
I jumped up with the leap of the panther.

I could not loosen his strong grasp, but I tore the paper from round his fingers, ran down the steps through the rows of desks and benches, without looking to the right or left, and flew without bonnet or covering out into the broad sunlight and open air.
"Come back, this moment!" The thundering voice of the master rolled after me, like a heavy stone, threatening to crush me as it rolled.

I bounded on before it with constantly accelerating speed.
"Go back,--never!" I said this to myself.

I repeated it aloud to the breeze that came coolly and soothingly through the green boughs, to fan the burning cheeks of the fugitive.