At any rate, there were others, or one other, of whom Bess did not hate
the sight, and in the end her behaviour caused such scandal that Barbara
was obliged to send her out of the house.
"All right, ma'am," she said, "I'll go, and be glad of a change. You may
ring your own bull-calf now and I wish you joy of the job, since there's
none but me that can lead him."
A few days later Anthony returned from school. With him came a letter
from the head master, who wrote that he did not wish to make any
scandal, and therefore had not expelled the boy. Still, he would be
obliged if his mother would refrain from sending him back, as he did not
consider him a suitable member of a public school. He suggested, in
the lad's own interest, that it might be wise to place him in some
establishment where a speciality was made of the training of unruly
youths. He added that he wrote this with the more regret since Anthony's
father and grandfather had been scholars at ---- in their day, and her
son possessed no mean intellectual abilities. This would be shown by
the fact that he was at the head of his class, and might doubtless under
other circumstances have risen to a high place in the sixth form.
Then followed the details of his misdoings, of which one need only be
mentioned.
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