Not one syllable of complaint had fallen from the junior master's lips.

He had simply repeated that, though sorry to cause any inconvenience, it was of importance to him to leave at once.
"'At least,' he said to himself, 'I shall say nothing to get any of them into trouble after I am gone.' "And he had begged, too, that no public intimation of his resignation should be given.
"But one or two of the boys had known it before it actually occurred--and among them the Berkeley brothers.

Late one cold evening, for winter had set in very early that year, Mr.Sawyer had stopped them on their way across the courtyard to their own rooms.
"'Berkeley,' he had said, 'I am leaving early to-morrow morning.

I should like to say good-bye and shake hands with you before I go.

I have not taken a good way with you boys, somehow, and--and the prejudice against me has been very strong.