A Hero of Romance

A Hero of Romance
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Marsh Richard. A Hero of Romance

Chapter I. PUNISHMENT AT MECKLEMBURG HOUSE

Chapter II. TUTOR BAITING

Chapter III. AT MOTHER HUFFHAM'S

Chapter IV. A LITTLE DRIVE

Chapter V. AN EVENING AT WASHINGTON VILLA

Chapter VI. AFTERWARDS

Chapter VII. THE RETURN OF THE WANDERERS

Chapter VIII. PREPARING FOR FLIGHT

Chapter IX. THE START

Chapter X. ANOTHER LITTLE DRIVE

Chapter XI. THE ORIGINAL BADGER

Chapter XII. A "DOSS" HOUSE

Chapter XIII. IN PETERSHAM PARK

Chapter XIV. IN TROUBLE

Chapter XV. OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN INTO THE FIRE

Chapter XVI. THE CAPTAIN'S ROOM

Chapter XVII. TWO MEN AND A BOY

Chapter XVIII. THE BOAT-TRAIN

Chapter XIX. TO JERSEY WITH A THIEF

Chapter XX. EXIT CAPTAIN TOM

Chapter XXI. THE DISADVANTAGES OF NOT BEING ABLE TO SPEAK FRENCH

Chapter XXII. THE END OF THE JOURNEY

Chapter XXIII. THE LAND OF GOLDEN DREAMS

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There were twenty-seven boys at Mecklemburg House; and even this small number bade fair to decrease. Last term there had been thirty-three; the term before there had been forty. Within quite recent years considerably over a hundred boys had occupied the draughty dormitories of the great old red-brick house.

Mecklemburg House Collegiate School was a case in point. It had been a school ever since the first of the Georges; and it is, perhaps, not too much to say, that out of the large number of boys who had been educated beneath its roof, not one of them had received a wholesome education. Yet it had always been a paying property. More than one of its principals had retired with a comfortable competency. Certainly the number of its pupils had never stood at such a low ebb as at the time of which we tell. Why the number should be so uncomfortably low was a mystery to its present principal, Beauclerk Fletcher. The place had belonged to his father, and his father had always found it bring something more than daily bread. But even daily bread was beginning to fail with Beauclerk Fletcher. Twenty-seven pupils at such a place as Mecklemburg House! and the majority of them upon "reduced terms"! Mr. Fletcher, never the most enterprising of men, was beginning to be overwhelmed beneath an avalanche of debt, and to feel that the fight was beyond his strength.

.....

"Mrs. Fletcher said no one was to go out while it rained." He had collected all the remnants of his grammar, and was rising with them in his hand.

"Give me hold!" exclaimed Bertie; and he snatched what was left of the book out of the usher's hands.

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