Wroxby College, Or, the Luscombe Prize; A Tale of Boy Life

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874. Excerpt: ... he'll be going up to the Roebuck to insist on his coming down, and then he'll find that he is sold out and out! Won't it be a proper game! Prime, said Webber, only he'll be let off too easy. Just think of the hurt he meant to do me, Frank, if you hadn't saved me. There's no good in thinking of that, so far as I can see, returned Frank; and I don't fancy he'll try it on with you after this, Geoff. He has been dead beat twice, and I should say he'd think twice was enough. Webber made no reply, but he leaned back in his chair, lost in thought. Percy might treat this lightly, and affect to undervalue the service he had done him; but that was not the light in which he meant to regard it. No. He would remember it all the days of their school-life at Wroxby; and perhaps there might come a time, when it would be in his power to repay it--repay it, at any risk, or by any sacrifice. Oh, how he hoped that such a time might come! Whether Frank's prediction that Osborne would thenceforth interfere no more with them would have been verified or not, cannot be determined. An incident took place not many days afterwards, which brought Master Dick's stay at the college to an abrupt termination. The reader will not have forgotten Tommy Hutton, Frank's early companion and foster-brother. They had been separated to some extent, of course, by the removal of young Percy, first to Mrs. Knight's, and then to Wroxby College. But Frank was not one to forget old friends, or allow any change of circumstances to make a difference in his demeanour towards them. Tommy had now been removed to the Free School; into which (as the reader will remember) Mrs. Knight had vainly sought to obtain admission for her protege. The Free School consisted almost entirely of the sons of small t...