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THE days of the ensuing week were certainly not without their surprises both for the masters and scholars of St. Benger's, and it was soon remarked in many quarters that something must have happened to the Head. He seemed to have altered most strangely, and to be in every way so different from his former self.
In all respects a changed man, he was revealing characteristics which no one had dreamed that he possessed before. He was inquiring and sympathetic, and he had lost much of his lordly detachment from any interest whatsoever in the private affairs of either the masters or the boys. He was exhibiting, too, a sense of humour, and things that would before have roused him to contemptuous anger, now only made him smile.