Eric by Frederic William Farrar
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I was mistaken. Go." And so saying, he waved them to their seats with
imperious disdain. They went, looking sheepish, and ashamed. Eric, deeply vexed, kept twisting and untwisting a bit of paper, without raising his eyes, and even Barker thoroughly repented his short-sighted treachery; the rest were silent and miserable. At twelve o'clock two boys lingered in the room to speak to Mr. Gordon; they were Eric Williams and Edwin Russell, but they were full of very different feelings. Eric stepped to the desk first. Mr. Gordon looked up. "You! Williams, I wonder that you have the audacity to speak to me. Go--I have nothing to say to you!" "But, sir, I want to tell you that--" "Your guilt is only too clear, Williams. You will hear more of this. Go, I tell you." Eric's passion overcame him; he stamped furiously on the ground, and burst out, "I _will_ speak, sir; you have been unjust to me for a long time, but I will _not_ be--" Mr. Gordon's cane fell sharply across the boy's back; he stopped, glared for a moment; and then saying: "Very well, sir! I shall tell Dr. Rowlands that you strike before you |
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