Author : Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff
Release : 2012-02-04
Genre : Children's literature
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The Lycee Boys, Or, School Life in France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lycee Boys, Or, School Life in France write by Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff. This book was released on 2012-02-04. The Lycee Boys, Or, School Life in France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. WHAT EVERYBODY SAID. SHE sixth class could not understand what had come over Orengo and Andrei Neither of them appeared in the class, and in a few minutes Jacques entered the class-room to summon Luca to the presence of the proviseur. Luca turned a little pale, which the rest of the boys at once took for a convincing proof of guilt, and began making contemptuous grimaces at him; indeed, as he left the room, there were a few low groans, instantly checked by the professor's astonished 'Silence!' And Luca, in spite of his conscious innocence, felt his heart sinking. But in half an hour he returned with a face beaming over with joy and triumph, much to the amazement of the others, who sat impatiently waiting for the end of the lesson, that they might learn what had happened. None of them could whisper to Luca, for the Greek professor, in whose room they now were, was rather sharper than his colleagues, and was wonderfully clever at detecting, and disagreeably severe in punishing whisperers. But the end of the hour came at last, and then it was known through the class that Andre was accused of having stolen the money. Before evening this news was confirmed, with the addition that Andre had been obliged to confess, and was to be expelled. Orengo's fate was longer a mystery, till old Jacques, unable to contain the good news, let it out with many chuckles, and thus greatly terrified the other conspirators, who, supposing that all had been found out, took counsel together, and thinking at all events to gain the credit of having voluntarily confessed, precipitately went off to the proviseur and gave themselves up, much to the delight of that authority, who gave them to understand that he had had his eye upon them all the while (though this was a dreadf...