May no one who reads this ever be placed upon the horns of such a dilemma!
9. A Letter from Home
"Here are a few of the unpleasantest words
That ever blotted paper....
A letter,
And every word in it a gaping wound."
Merchant of Venice.
If it were not that it was so absolutely essential to the interest of this story, I think I should almost prefer to draw a veil over the sufferings of Mr. Bultitude during the rest of that unhappy week at Crichton House; but it would only be false delicacy to do so.
Things went worse and worse with him. The real Dick in his most objectionable moods could never have contrived to render himself one quarter so disliked and suspected as his substitute was by the whole school—masters and boys.