The Novels, Romances, And Memoirs of Alphonse Daudet (1901)
“de Boucoyran, senior, would have undertaken to avenge his child! But it was nobody but a little wretch whom he despised. Only let that Person understand once for all that, if He ever touched a hair of the boy's head again His ears would be cut short for him.
During this beautiful speech, the boys were laughing in their sleeve, and M. Viot's keys were fluttering with pleasure. Standing up at his desk, pale with rage, the poor Person in question was listening to all these insults, and gulping... down these humiliations, very careful not to answer. If He had answered, He would have been dismissed from the school, and then what place was there to go to?
At last, at the end of an hour, when their flow of eloquence was exhausted, the three gentlemen retired. After their departure, there was a great tumult in the school-room. I tried, but in vain, to obtain a little silence; the children laughed in my face. The Boucoyran affair had put the finishing stroke to my authority.MoreLess
During this beautiful speech, the boys were laughing in their sleeve, and M. Viot's keys were fluttering with pleasure. Standing up at his desk, pale with rage, the poor Person in question was listening to all these insults, and gulping... down these humiliations, very careful not to answer. If He had answered, He would have been dismissed from the school, and then what place was there to go to?
At last, at the end of an hour, when their flow of eloquence was exhausted, the three gentlemen retired. After their departure, there was a great tumult in the school-room. I tried, but in vain, to obtain a little silence; the children laughed in my face. The Boucoyran affair had put the finishing stroke to my authority.MoreLess
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