The Unclassed

d, the latter a disused coach-house); and, as to educational features, offered, at the choice of parents and guardians, either the solid foundation desirable for those youths predestined to a

commodated in so small a house. Two fair-sized bedrooms, and a garret in which the servants could not be p

awing and lecturer on experimental chemistry. The other two masters, resident, were Mr. O'Gree and Herr Egger; the former, teacher of mathematics, assistant classical master, and professor of gymnastics; the latter, teacher of foreign languages, of music, and of dancing. Dr. Tootle took upon himself the English branches, and, of course, the arduous duty of general superintendence. He was a very tall, thin, cadaverous, bald-headed man. Somehow or other he had the reputation of having, at an earlier stage in

f school was for the time shut out. The floor was uncarpeted, the walls illustrated only with a few maps and diagrams. There was a piano, whereon Herr Egger gave his music lessons. Few rooms in existence could have excelled

was his own pronunciation of the name-would have been worse than insignificant in appearance, but for the expressio

ould come and teach French or German in return for mere board and lodging; when the man had learnt a little English, and was in a position to demand a salary, he was dismissed, and a new professor obtained. Egger had lately, under the influence of some desperate delusion, come to our hospitable clime in search of his fortune. Of languages he could not be said to know any; his French and his German were of barbarisms all compact; English as yet he could use only in a most primitive manner. He must have been the most unhap

e started from the fireside, snatched up the poker, brandished

way in which I'm treated in this academy-the way in which I'm treated both by Dr. Tootle and by Mrs. Tootle. You were witness of his insulting behaviour this very afternoon. He openly ta

, especially in his present mood. Waymark

s behaviour was especially scandalous to-day. I

ach his crown, and that he shall be aware of before he knows ut. He sets me at naught in my own class, sir; he pooh-poohs my mathematical demonstrations, sir; he encourages my pupils in insubordination! And Mrs. Tootle! Bedad, if I don't invent some device for revenging myself on that supercilious woman. The very next time she pres

n of furious wrath immediately passed from his col

a veritable Goliath;-here's me, as it were David. Observe; Tootle holds in his hand his 'little compendium,' raised in haughty superciliousness. Observe

O'G

d woman, in slatternly dress. It was Mrs. Tootle. She had overheard almost the whole of O'Gree's vivid comment upon his graphic illustration, in silen

you aware of my

; struck motionless with horror, he stood pointing to the drawing on the board, his fa

end to me, and to your duty! What do you mean by allowing the dormitories to get into this state of uproar? There'

heard a sound, ma'a

fering from one of his very worst headaches, utterly u

noise increased considerably. O'Gree had rushed up without a light, and was battling desperately in the darkness with a score of pillow-fighters, roaring

, and turned with a l

to-night, I'm af

yellow handkerchief from his mouth and wiped his eye

ve made my possibl

his best to be seriously sympathetic, and to attempt consolation in such German as was at his command. Egger's despondency only increased

to Waymark, stood with eyes fixed on the chalk caricatures. Very gradually he turned round. Waymark was

r a quarter's salary,-though I sadly need a new pair of breeches. She's a supercilious c

tunner the new governess is! You're a lucky dog, to s

You've seen h

red me. She's never been out of my thoughts for a minute since I saw her. 'I lov

me a long way too good to be teaching those unlicked cubs. Th

sent, and heard that woman breat

f his vehemence with a star

ed, "a song; I beg, a s

by hath a b

ot in voic

g a Volkslied, and in a way which showed that there was poetry in the man's nature, though his outward appearance gave so little promise of it. His voice was very fair, and well suited to express the tender pathos of

er fortgeht, der

, no!" the young m

o mix from time to time in the life of the town, and a stroll into the Strand after nightfall inevitably led to the expenditure of whatever cash his pocket contained. He was passionately found of the theatre; the lights about the open entrance drew him on irresistibly, and if, as so often, he had to choose between a meal and a seat in the gallery, the meal was sacrificed. Hunger, indeed, was his normal state; sem

us misery till there was no longer time to prepare breakfast, and he had to hasten off to school after a mouthful of dry bread which choked him. There had been moments when his strength failed, and he found his eyes filling with tears of wretchedness. To face the hideous drudgery of the day's teaching often cost him more than it had cost many men to face the scaffold. The hours between nine and one, the hours between half-past two and five, Waymark cursed them minute by minute, as their awful length was measured by the crawling hands of the

e?-he asked himself. W

gs of boys in the school, which were about to be sent home. He knew that he should find a fresh governess busy with the children, the lady hitherto employed having gone at a moment's notice after a violent quarrel with Mrs. Tootle, an incident which had happened not infrequently before. When he entered the room, he saw a young woman seated with her back to him, penning a copy, whilst the children jumped and rioted about her in their usual fashion. The late governess had been a mature person of features rather serviceable than handsome; that her successor was of a different type appeared sufficiently from the fair round head, the gracefully bended neck, the perfect shoulders, the slight, beautiful form. Waymark took his place and waited with

his overquick eyes perceived that the two had seen each ot

But the youngster shook off her gentle touch, and looked at his brothers and sisters with a much to

aid no attention to Waymark, but proceeded to cross-examine the new governess as to her methods of

certainly will not be their own fault. At the same time, they are high-spirited, and require to be discreetly managed. This, as I previously informed you

that, on the following morning, not only the gleam of watery sunshine, but also the thought of an hour to be spent in the presence of that timid face, brought him on his way to the school with an