Cressy
Cressy
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aring suddenly from ditches, behind trunks, and between
fence-rails; cropping up in unexpected places along the road after
vague and purposeless detours--seemingly going anywhere and
everywhere but to school! So unlooked-for, in fact, was their final
arrival that the master, who had a few moments before failed to
descry a single torn straw hat or ruined sun-bonnet above his
visible horizon, was always startled to find them suddenly under his
windows, as if, like the birds, they had alighted from the trees.
Nor was their moral attitude towards their duty any the more varied;
they always arrived as if tired and reluctant, with a doubting
sulkiness that perhaps afterwards beamed into a charming hypocrisy,
but invariably temporizing with their instincts until the last
moment, and only relinquishing possible truancy on the very
threshold. Even after they were marshalled on their usual benches
they gazed at each other every morning with a perfectly fresh
astonishment and a daily recurring enjoyment of some hidden
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