"Not if I can help it. But now I never feel sure, after any half-holiday, that I sha'n't have to flog one of them next morning, for some foolish, thoughtless scrape. I quite dread seeing either of them."
They were both silent for a minute. Presently the Doctor began again:—
"They don't feel that they have any duty or work to do in the School, and how is one to make them feel it?"
"I think if either of them had some little boy to take care of, it would steady him. Brown is the more reckless of the two, I should say; East wouldn't get into so many scrapes without him."
"Well," said the Doctor, with something like a sigh, "I'll think of it." And they went on to talk of other subjects.
FOOTNOTES
[1] The half: the half-year.
[2] Ominous: foretelling evil.
[3] Cut to cover: ran to a hiding-place.
[4] Draw: to force a creature to leave its hiding-place.