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Edmund Yates
Wrecked in Port
A Novel
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338073204
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CHAPTER I.
MORIBUND.
"I say! Old Ashurst's going to die."
"No! How do you know? Who told you?"
"I heard Dr. Osborne say so to Miss Winter."
"Ah! so likely Dr. Osborne would tell that old beast! Why was its name throughout doctors are the silentest fellows in the world. My uncle Robert is a doctor, and I know all about it."
"Well, I'll take my dick I heard old Osborne say so! I say, Hawkes, if Ashurst does die, we shall break up at once, sha'n't we?"
"I should think so! Stunning!"
"And we sha'n't come back till there's a new head master?"
"Of course not, you young ass! That don't matter much to me; I'm going to leave this term."
"Don't I wish I was, that's all! I say, Hawkes, do you think the governors will give old Ashurst's place to Joyce?"
"Joyce?--that snob! Not they, indeed! They'll get a swell from Oxford, or somewhere, to be head master; and I should think he'll give Master Joyce the sack. Baker, lend me twopence!"