Sometimes he goes so far as to decide that he has mistaken his vocation7, and he resigns and becomes a school inspector8. But presently he notices that elderly and revered9 colleagues have laughed and grown fat under this treatment for thirty years, and indeed look upon the seething10 indignation of their subjects as the salt of life. This comforts him. He tries again, and presently discovers that it is possible to be the hated oppressor [Pg 55] of his form in public and their familiar friend and trusted adviser11 in private. Collective hostility12 vanishes under the influence of a cup of tea or an evening on the river, and individual friendship takes its place. Last of all as he grows older, comes that continuous calm which marks his older colleagues: for he knows now that Jinks minor13 and Muggins tertius, who sit in the back row with lowering brows and grinding teeth, chafing14 under his tyranny and preaching sedition15 at intervals16, will one day come and sit in his armchairs, with their feet on his mantelpiece, bearded or sunburned or distinguished18, and will convey to him, if not in words, at any rate by their demeanour, their heartfelt thanks for the benefits which he lavished19 upon them with so unsparing a hand in the grand old days in the Shell or the Remove or the Lower Fifth. That is his reward. Men have died for less.
Now, Mr. Hanbury, lord and master of the Lower Shell, a sort of intellectual dust-heap on the Modern side at Grandwich School, was specially20 favoured by the gods in that he received his reward more quickly than most. He was twenty-nine; he had been a famous Cricket Blue, and he enjoyed the respectful admiration21 of countless22 boys, who listened eagerly to his small talk, felt proud when he spoke23 to them unofficially, and endeavoured to imitate his bowling24 action.
[Pg 56] He also possessed25 other qualifications. He loved his work, he took immense pains to understand each of his boys, and he endeavoured by daily admonition and occasional castigation26 to goad27 his form into respectability.
For in truth they were a poor lot. Why they were called the Shell was a mystery,—the Sieve28 would have described them better. Large, cumbrous persons, with small heads and colossal29 feet, with vacant faces and incipient30 beards, stuck in its meshes31 and remained there forever, while their more youthful and slippery brethren wriggled32 through. Most masters resigned their posts after a year of the Lower Shell, with the result that that glorious company were constantly entrusted33 to the newest and rawest recruit on the staff. Consequently discipline was lax; and when the Head rather apologetically handed the form over to Mr. Hanbury, it became instantly apparent that the ultimate result would be the collapse34 of Hanbury or the reformation of the Shell.
The latter alternative came to pass, but not before both sides had distinguished themselves in several engagements.
Mr. Hanbury had to teach his form self-respect. Long experience had taught them that they were incapable35 as a body of producing good work; and being constitutionally averse36 to half-measures, [Pg 57] they were accustomed, rather than turn out a second-rate article, to turn out nothing at all. Like the Tenth, who do not dance, the Lower Shell did not work.
They therefore looked upon it as a breach37 of academic etiquette38 when Mr. Hanbury violently assaulted three of their most distinguished members, for no other reason than that they, following the immemorial custom of the form, omitted for three consecutive39 evenings to do any "prep." With ready acumen40 the Shell also discovered that their new form-master had no sense of humour. Else why, when Elphinstone, commonly known as "Top-knot," let loose a blackbird from a bandbox during the history hour, and every one else present was convulsed with honest mirth, should Mr. Hanbury, with an absolutely fatuous41 affectation of solemnity, have made absurd remarks about teaching small boys manners, and have laid such violent hands on Elphinstone as to make it necessary for that enterprising ornithologist42 to take his meals from off the mantelpiece for the next three days?
Besides being a tyrant44 and a dullard, their form-master, they observed, was not even a gentleman. When Crabbe major, a youth of determined45 character and litigious habits, took the trouble to stay behind and point out to Mr. Hanbury that by depriving him (Crabbe [Pg 58] major) of all his marks for the week for the paltry46 indiscretion of cribbing from Jones, Mr. Hanbury was outraging47 the most elementary principles of justice (Jones's involuntary aid being not worth even an hour's marks), his treatment of Crabbe was undignified and flippant to the last degree.
"Look here, my dear young Christian48 friend," he had said, "just cut away to your tea, and be thankful you are in a condition to sit down to it."
Crabbe disregarded the utter grossness of this innuendo49.
"My people, sir," he remarked, "will not be pleased if I go home at the end of the term without any marks."
"Is that all?" replied Mr. Hanbury. "Step round to my room before your cab comes and I'll send you home all over them. Now, hook it, and don't be a young ass again."
A reply in the worst possible taste, the form decided50.
Mr. Hanbury, or "Ham" as he was usually called, had been in charge of the Lower Shell some four years, and had long reduced that chaotic51 assembly to respectability, and even intelligence. It was the first morning of a new term, and he had just entered his classroom, and was engaged in greeting his pupils. The ceremony [Pg 59] over, he mounted his throne and addressed the multitude,—
"Having said 'How do you do?' to all of you, I will now proceed to say 'Good-bye' to some of you. Hood52 down to Aitchison, you are promoted. Out you go! Mr. Mayor is anxious to make your acquaintance."
Ten sheepish youths rose up and filed out.
"Now, move up, all of you. We shall have some recruits in presently. Brown minor, you have not got your remove, but you are now in the proud position of head boy of this form. Hallo! here come our friends from the Lower Regions."
Eleven far more sheepish youths here entered the room, headed by a small boy in spectacles, who made his entrance some way ahead of his fellows with a suddenness that suggested propulsion from the rear. All took up a retired53 position on the back bench.
"Now, sort yourselves," continued Ham. "Old guard, close up! Then the promotions54, then the new boys in alphabetical55 order."
This arrangement left the form in something like order. At the head sat Mr. Brown minor; at the tail a small and alert youth with black hair, a face freckled56 like a plover's egg, and solemn eyes.
The Commander-in-Chief addressed them,—
"Brown minor, you are unanimously elected [Pg 60] first lieutenant57. You must remind me to set preparation every night, and you will write the same on the board in a fair round hand, that he who runs for tea may read. You, sir,—let me see, Wilmot: thank you" (addressing the solemn youth at the foot of the form)—"are hereby appointed scavenger58. Your duties will be explained to you by Mr. Brown. They relate chiefly to the tidiness of this room. You have obtained this important post solely59 because of your position in the alphabet. If you had had the misfortune to be called Atkins or Absalom, you would have failed to do so. We will now proceed to the orders of the day."
And this was Pip's first encounter with one of his lifelong friends.
The friendship did not form itself all at once. For a year they struggled together, Mr. Hanbury to find something that Pip could learn, Pip to find something that "Ham" could teach. Pip, it must be confessed, was no genius, even from Thomas Carlyle's point of view, and he retained the post of scavenger for the whole of his first year in the form. Otherwise, he was well content. He acquired friends, notably60 one Mumford, whose superior position in the alphabet was his sole qualification for exemption61 from the post of scavenger.
The duties of that official, by the way, were [Pg 61] not arduous62. He was expected to open the windows wide for two minutes between each hour, to pick up stray ink-pots, and keep the blackboard clean. There were other duties of an unofficial nature attached to the post, the chief of which was to stand with an eye glued to the keyhole until the master for the hour loomed63 upon the horizon, and then to herald64 his approach by a cry of "Cave!" whereupon the form would betake themselves to their seats with an alacrity65 which varied66 inversely67 with the master's reputation for indulgence.
One day Mr. Hanbury thoughtlessly came by an unexpected route, and was at the door-handle before Pip realised that he was near. Consequently Pip was thrown heavily on to his back with a contused eye; and after listening throughout the hour to facetious68 remarks from Ham about Sister Anne and Horatius Cocles, endured the further indignity69 of being kicked by a select committee of the Lower Shell, who afterwards deposed70 him from his high office, and appointed Mumford in his stead.
Pip's services, however, were speedily requisitioned again, for Mumford proved but a broken reed. He was by nature deliberate in his movements, and the form were more than once taken by surprise owing to their watchman's remissness72 at the keyhole. His last performance, that [Pg 62] which brought Pip back to office, was of such an exceptional nature, and took the fancy of the school to such an extent, that it is to this day preserved among the unwritten archives of Grandwich, bracketed equal with the occasion on which Plumbley minor walked into the French classroom whistling, with a bandbox containing a nest of field-mice under his arm, only to discover, after liberating73 the mice, that the Head was sitting in the French master's place.
Mumford one day stood crouching74 at his keyhole. All around him surged the Lower Shell, busily employed in obliterating75 the traces of a brief but sanguinary combat between Jenkins and MacFarlane. The fight had arisen over some small matter of an international character, and after four spirited rounds it was decided that honours so far were equally divided, and that the final round had better be postponed76 until the interval17 before dinner. The form accordingly settled down in their places, and with a passing admonition to Mumford to persevere77 in his vigil, betook themselves to conversation until Ham should be pleased to put in an appearance. As that tyrant had not yet appeared at the far end of the corridor outside, Mumford decided that this was a good opportunity for retiring for a brief moment from his post to his locker78, for purposes of refreshment79. [Pg 63] But fortune was against him. Mr. Hanbury had been out to see the ground-man on some cricket business, and consequently came up to his classroom by that abominable80 "alternative route." He entered the room quietly, and after walking to his desk was on the point of reprimanding Mumford, whose head was buried in his locker, for being out of his seat, when his words were arrested by the somewhat eccentric behaviour of that remarkable81 youth. Mumford left his locker, and having thrust a biscuit into his cheek, walked across the room to the door, where he bent82 down and applied83 his eye to the keyhole.
The form sat spellbound; and Mr. Hanbury was too astonished to break the silence.
Meanwhile the infatuated Mumford, having finished his biscuit, proceeded to describe to his classmates the movements of the enemy outside.
"All right!" he remarked cheerfully. "Not in sight yet—only Wilkes and Jordan. There's the Badger84 now. What cheer, Badger, old man?" (The Badger was the Senior Science Master.)
The form gave no sign, though Brown minor and Pip were exhibiting symptoms of incipient apoplexy; and Mr. Hanbury came to the conclusion that this comedy had better cease. But the luckless Mumford, his eye still firmly adhering to the keyhole, continued,—
"Hallo! there's the Head. Hope he meets [Pg 64] some of those chaps. Very slack, their not goin' to their classrooms till five minutes past the hour. Wonder where Ham is. Downstairs, I expect, cadging85 beer off the butler. He'll probably be tight when he—"
At this point, flattered by the deferential86 silence with which his remarks were being received, and desirous of observing the effect of this last sally on his fellows, the doomed87 youth turned from the keyhole to the room. The first object which met his eye was his form-master. The effect was remarkable. Mumford's eyes, already bulging88 from long straining at the keyhole, nearly fell from his head; he turned deadly pale; and finally, with a whoop89 of terror, he dashed from the room, never stopping till he reached the seclusion90 of his study in his tutor's house.
He was not punished, for Ham knew well that no further penalty was required. The Lower Shell, however, unanimously voted Mumford "an abject91 blighter," and restored Pip to his old post.
Nearly a year passed. Pip was now fifteen. He had stayed at the preparatory school for a year longer than most boys, owing to an attack of mumps92; but his appearance was so youthful and his mental abilities so limited, that he might easily have passed, as his friend Mumford frequently [Pg 65] remarked, for twelve. Mr. Hanbury was not often puzzled by a boy's brain, but in Pip's case he had to admit himself baffled.
"I can't make the boy out," he said to his colleague, the Reverend William Mortimer (usually called "Uncle Bill"), who was Pip's house-tutor. "He has a wonderful memory, but is either unable or unwilling93 to think. He prefers to learn a page of easy history by heart, and repeat it like a parrot, rather than read it through and give me the substance of it in his own words."
"Anything for a change," grunted94 Uncle Bill. "I would cheerfully barter95 my entire form of imbeciles for one such youth. Look here: here is Atkinson, with the body of a camel and the mind of a hedgehog, who has been in my form for three years, and thinks that De mortuis nil96 nisi bonum is a good ending for a hexameter. And that boy's mother came and called on me last term for an hour and a half, and confided97 to me that a boy of Lancelot's eager spirit and delicate organism might be inclined to overwork himself. I suppose this other boy's mother,—no, by the way, he hasn't got one,—his father is a big West-End doctor. The boy must have been left very much to himself in his childhood. He has never read a story-book in his life, and the cricket news is all that he reads in the papers."
"Ah! is he a cricketer?" said Hanbury.
[Pg 66] "On paper: his real performances are very moderate. He will tell you the batting and bowling average of every first-class cricketer, though."
"I don't think I have come across him in that line yet. I am glad he knows something. Well, I am off to my classroom."
"What? At this hour of the afternoon?"
"Yes; a meeting with a few young friends to discuss various points in the history of Samson. Four of them, including our young friend. Infernal rot, these Sunday preparations! The boys don't learn the work, and the average form-master can't explain it. They ought to be lumped together on Monday mornings for you to take, padre."
"Quite right, my son," replied Uncle Bill. "Last term Kifford told his form that a phylactery was a kind of musical instrument. Well, cut along. Be gentle with them."
It was a very hot afternoon in June. Hanbury found four discontented young persons awaiting him. He was wont98 to be lenient99 over the Scripture100 lesson, and a misplaced confidence in this fact had led the quartette to their downfall.
"Now, let us get this business finished," he said briskly. "Are you all ready to be questioned?"
[Pg 67] The quartette expressed their readiness to endure the most searching cross-examination.
"Very well, then. Sit down quickly and write out, in your own words, an account of the events in chapter thirteen."
Four pens began to scratch, three vigorously, the last more diffidently. At the end of twenty minutes Mr. Hanbury called a halt.
"Show it up," he said.
Four inky manuscripts were laid before him.
"Let me see," he continued. "Manoah—angel—sacrifice—Nazarite—yes." He glanced swiftly through the papers. "You can go, you three; but you, my young friend,"—he laid a heavy hand on Pip's unkempt head,—"will stay and talk to me."
There was a hasty scuttling101 of feet, the banging of a door, and Pip was left alone with his master.
Pip sighed and glanced out of the window, through which came the regular knock, knock, of innumerable bats against innumerable balls all along the long line of nets.
"Come along to my study," said Hanbury. "No, no, I'm not going to execute you this time," as Pip looked a little apprehensive102.
Mr. Hanbury occupied two rooms in a corner of Mr. Mortimer's house, and thither103 Pip was conducted.
[Pg 68] "Now, young man, sit down in that armchair."
Pip obeyed, and took his seat on the extreme edge.
"You are a queer customer," said Mr. Hanbury meditatively104. "You know ten times as much about that chapter as Marsh105 or Stokes or Fox, and yet you produced this. Look at it."
It certainly was an interesting document. Pip, unable to grasp the main facts of the simple narrative106 set forth107, had adopted the, to him, easier expedient108 of learning the chapter, or portions of it, by heart. The result was a curious framework of absolutely valueless but fairly correct quotations109, and an utter absence of anything in the shape of coherent information.
"And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines110 forty years."
"And an angel appeared unto the woman and said...."
"And the woman came to her husband and said...."
Here the manuscript came to an inky termination.
"What are these blanks for?" inquired Ham.
"I couldn't remember what they said, sir," explained Pip, "so I put blanks."
"H'm; I see. It gives their remarks rather an expurgated appearance, though. But look here, old man," he continued, not unkindly, "one [Pg 69] quarter of the labour that you spent on learning this stuff by heart—you have got the first verse quite correct, you see—would have enabled you, if rightly applied, to give the gist43 of the story in your own words, which was all I wanted. Now, wouldn't it?"
Pip looked at him honestly.
"No, sir," he said.
"But, good gracious, when you read a novel—say Sherlock Holmes—do you find it easier to learn it by heart rather than gather the meaning as you go along?"
"I have never read a novel, sir," said Pip.
"Well, then, any book?"
"I have never read any books, except the ones in school, sir."
"I see I am dealing111 with a phenomenon," said Mr. Hanbury. "My poor friend, do you mean to say that your knowledge of books is bounded by C?sar and Arabella Buckley? What did you do in your extreme youth? Didn't you ever read fairy tales? Haven't you heard of Cinderella or Jack112 the Giant-Killer?"
"No, sir."
"Why, your par—" Mr. Hanbury stopped. He remembered what Father William had told him, and he realised that home without a mother may indeed be a strange place.
There was a pause. Pip, well back in his chair [Pg 70] now, sat looking curiously113 at this large man, who appeared to be genuinely distressed114 by his ignorance of fairy tales. Presently the master continued,—
"Then you never read anything?"
"Yes, the papers, sir."
"Come, that's better. What part?"
"All the cricket."
"Are you a keen cricketer, then?"
"I'm no good, sir, but I am keen."
"Well, trot115 down and change, and then we'll go to the field and I'll run over your points at a net. We will see if you are as good a cricketer as you are a scholar. Stay and have some cake first. Perhaps you will excuse me if I smoke a pipe. Masters have their vices71, you see. I haven't smoked for nearly three hours."
So the pair sat, Pip with a large piece of cake balanced delicately on his knee, morbidly116 anxious not to spill crumbs117 on the floor; and Hanbury lolling back in his armchair, smoking his pipe and surveying this sturdy youth before him, who knew every cricketer's average and had never heard of Cinderella.
As Pip was changing into flannels118 a few minutes later he encountered Mumford.
"Come to the grub-shop," said that hero.
"Can't," said Pip shortly. "Seen the comb anywhere?"
[Pg 71] "Comb? What for?" said Mumford, who considered parting the hair during term-time an affectation.
"My hair, of course, silly swine," replied Pip, without heat.
"You must be cracked! Come to the grub-shop," reiterated119 his friend.
"Can't. Promised to go to a net with Ham."
And Pip, having worked up the conversation to this artistic120 climax121, departed, leaving Mumford, who was not an athlete, in a state of incoherent amazement122.
Mr. Hanbury presently arrived at the net, with two more small boys picked up on the way. Each was given an innings, with a little helpful coaching, Pip coming last. He stood up to the bowling manfully, and occasionally slogged one of his weaker brethren; but his bat was anything but straight, and Ham bowled him at will.
"M' yes," said Mr. Hanbury, "you are only an average lot of batsmen. Can any of you bowl?"
There was a respectful chorus of "No, sir," as custom demanded.
"Well, try. I am going to have a knock."
Pip and company bowled a few laborious123 overs, and speedily proved that their estimate of their own powers was based upon truth, their preceptor treating their deliveries with little ceremony.
[Pg 72] Finally they were ranged in a semicircle, and Ham gave them fielding practice.
Here Pip felt more at home. He was quick on his feet and possessed a "nippy" pair of hands. His ground fielding was especially good.
"Hallo!" cried Mr. Hanbury, as Pip got to a ball which kept low down on his left, and returned it particularly smartly; "which hand did you throw in that ball with, young man?"
Pip surveyed two grubby paws doubtfully.
"I think it was my left, sir," he said apologetically. "I can't help it sometimes."
"Ambidextrous124, eh? Catch this. Now, throw it in again—left hand."
Pip did so, wondering.
"Do you ever bowl left-handed?" was the next inquiry125.
"No, sir."
"Well, just come to a net for a few minutes. You other people can cut off to tea now."
The tea-bell had just rung, and the field was emptying rapidly.
"Now, my son," said the master, "you are going to bowl to me with your left hand. Plug them in."
Pip did so. His first ball was a fast half-volley, and was promptly126 treated as it deserved.
"Now, another. Take my ball. The groundboy will field yours."
[Pg 73] Pip, full of importance at having some one to field for him, bowled again. This time he sent down a good length ball. Mr. Hanbury stepped out to it, played right outside it, and next moment his leg-stump was lying on the ground. He was clean bowled.
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