“I can’t say much good of it. Dr. Musgrave is an ill-tempered man, of small acquirements, whose delight it is to tyrannize over the boys under his charge. I have received more than one flogging from him, wantonly inflicted, without my deserving it.”
“You would not send any boy there in whom you were interested?”
“Most certainly not!”
“Then I shall probably withdraw Vivian from the school.”
“You speak as if you were his guardian, and had full powers.”
“So I have; and I suppose I may call myself his guardian, since the responsibility has been given me by Mr. Saunders.”
“Are you speaking of the great Bombay merchant?”
“Yes.”
“He seems to repose a great deal of confidence in you.”
“He does,” answered Guy.