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bottles of coloured inks It looked a treasure store

The schoolmaster was a short, sturdy man, with a fine head,

and a heavy jowl Nevertheless he was good-looking, with his

shapely brows and nose, and his great, hanging moustache He

seemed absorbed in his work, and took no notice of Ursula's

entry There was so in the way he could be so

actively unaware of another person, so occupied

When he had a ood-ht in

his brown eyes He see she wanted to push over

"You had a alk," he said to Ursula

"Oh, I don't mind, I'h

But already he was not listening Her words sounded

ridiculous and babbling He was taking no notice of her

"You will sign your name here," he said to her, as if she

were soned her name in the time book and stood back No

one took any further notice of her She beat her brains for

so to say, but in vain

"I'd let them in now," said Mr Harby to the thinhis papers

The assistant teacher n of acquiescence, and went

on hat he was doing The atrew

tense At the last moment Mr Brunt slipped into his coat