Do you think such wickedness as
that ought to be kept from him? Nearly killing a fatherless child
like that, because he was not as bad as they were, and telling
falsehoods about it too! I never could have believed it of Rob. Oh!
what school does to one's boys!" She was agitated and overcome to a
degree that startled Carey, who began to try to comfort her.
"Perhaps Rob did not understand what he was about, and you see he was
led on. Armine will soon be all right again, and though he is a
dear, good little fellow, maybe the lesson may have been good for
him."
"How can you treat it so lightly?" cried poor Ellen, in her agitated
indignation. "It was a mercy that the child did not catch his death;
and as to Rob—-! And when Mr. Ogilvie always said the boys were so
improved, and that there was no bullying! It just shows how much he
knows about it! To think what they have made of my poor Rob! His
father will be so grieved! I should not wonder if he had a fit of
the gout!"
The shock was far greater to her than to one who had never kept her
boys at a distance, and who understood their ways, characters, and
code of honour; and besides Rob was her eldest, and she had credited
him with every sterling virtue. Jessie and Johnny stood aghast.
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