The Boys of Waveney (Paperback)

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. 1902. Excerpt: ... judge. Winthrop is behaving most handsomely by you in not prosecuting you, as he would have a perfect right to do, and Frisby, to whom you have done a far graver injury, is treating you with most admirable consideration. I can only trust--and I fervently do trust--that their leniency will not be lost upon you, but that their forgiveness will be as effectual morally as a severe punishment would have been. Let this whole sad incident be a lesson to you, so that you may go through the rest of your life shunning temptation, ruling your conduct with honour and honesty and charity, and working, with God's help, to higher aspirations and nobler desires." The Doctor paused and looked sadly into the fire. "I do not know, Gambier," he presently went on, "that I am doing a kindness to you in allowing you to go back to your home. Had your mother been alive, I should not hesitate. But you will understand, I am sure, that it woild be absolutely impossible for me to permit you to remain in this school. You shall stay in my house until you are able to be sent home." "You are very kind, sir," muttered Gambier; "and I think it is best that I should go. I don't think I could face the other fellows, and especially Winthrop and Frisby, after thia" CHAPTER XL. NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITIES. ADMIRAL CAMERON'S place at Halvergate was an old-fashioned manor-house which seemed to have been built, as Winthrop remarked, with an especial view to the keeping of Christmas within its precincts. Its tall, twisted chimney-stacks and Tudor gables looked impressively picturesque when seen through the frost-powdered branches of the intervening trees of the avenue, on the wintry afternoon when the boys arrived for their holiday. They had driven from the station in the Admiral's family coach. Winthr...