[coaster-devel] with round-eyed compla

[Vanleeuwen M. <hai...@so...>]

About--what's PRETTY and what's curious! Quit now! Come! Don't ye see
teacher lookin' at you? Ain't you ashamed?" He caught the master's
beckoning eye and came forward, slightly abashed, with a flush of
irritation still on his handsome face, and his chestnut curls slightly
rumpled. One, which Octavia had covertly accented by twisting round her
forefinger, stood up like a crest on his head. "I've told Uncle Ben that
you might help him here after school hours," said the master, taking him
aside. "You may therefore omit your writing exercise in the morning and
do it in the afternoon." The boy's dark eyes sparkled. "And if it would
be all the same to you, sir," he added earnestly, "you might sorter give
out in school that I was to be kept in." "