human
This is a disgraceful business!
gpt
The boys do not seem to have been much to blame, Mr. Richards suggested in the cheerful tone habitual to him.
human
From what I can hear it seems to have been a planned thing; the people gathered round the gates before they left the fields and attacked them without any provocation.
gpt
There must have been some provocation somewhere, Mr. Richards, if not yesterday, then the day before, or the day before that, Dr. Litter said, twirling his eye-glass by the ribbon.
human
A whole host of people do not gather to assault forty or fifty boys without provocation. This sort of thing must not occur again. I do not see that I can punish one boy without punishing the whole School; but, at any rate, for the next week fields must be stopped. I shall write to the Commissioner of Police, asking that when they again go to Vincent Square some policemen may be put on duty, not of course to accompany them, but to interfere at once if they see any signs of a repetition of this business. I shall request that, should there be any fighting, those not belonging to the School who commit an assault may be taken before a magistrate; my own boys I can punish myself. Are any of the boys seriously injured, do you think?
gpt
I hope not, sir, Mr. Richards said;
human
There are four of the juniors at College in the infirmary, Mr. Wire, who was in special charge of the Queen's Scholars, put in.
gpt
I had not heard about it last night, and was in ignorance of what had taken place until the list of those who had gone into the infirmary was put into my hands, and then I heard from Williams what had taken place.
human
It is very unpleasant, Dr. Litter said, in a weary tone of voice--as if boys were a problem far more difficult to be mastered than any that the Greek authors afforded him--
gpt
But even at the University, Doctor Litter, Mr. Richards said, with a passing thought of his own experience,
human
All the worse, Dr. Litter replied,
gpt
Dr. Litter himself, it is scarcely necessary to say, had never been wild, the study of the Greek particles had absorbed all his thoughts.
human
Why, he continued,