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She too must learn to subdue them to her will: she must For

it was her duty, since the school was such He had crystallized

the class into order But to see hi all his power for such a purpose, see hideous about it The strange, genial light

in his eye was really vicious, and ugly, his smile was one of

torture He could not be impersonal He could not have a clear,

pure purpose, he could only exercise his own brute will He did

not believe in the least in the education he kept inflicting

year after year upon the children So he , wholeso He was so blind and ugly and out of

place Ursula could not bear it as he stood there The whole

situation rong and ugly

The lesson was finished, Mr Harby went away At the far end

of the room she heard the whistle and the thud of the cane Her

heart stood still within her She could not bear it, no, she

could not bear it when the boy was beaten It o out of this school, this torture-place

And she hated the schoolhly and finally The

brute, had he no shame? He should never be allowed to continue

the atrocity of this bullying cruelty Then Hill ca desolate about

this blubbering that nearly broke her heart For after all, if