d was about to put his left fist into the
other, when he saw that the tutor was no longer looking at him. So he
made up his mind to go on with the raisins, for one can have a peevish
cry at any time, but plums are not scattered broadcast every day.
Several times he had tried to pocket them, but just at the moment the
tutor was sure to look at him, and in his fright he dropped the
raisins, and never could find them again. So this time he resolved to
eat them then and there. He had just put one into his mouth when the
tutor leaned forward, and his eyes, glowing in the firelight, met
MacGreedy's, who had not even the presence of mind to shut his mouth,
but remained spellbound, with a raisin in his cheek.

Flicker, flack! The school-boys stirred up snapdragon again, and with
the blue light upon his features the tutor made so horrible a grimace
that MacGreedy swallowed the raisin with a start. He had bolted it
whole, and it might have been a bread pill for any enjoyment he had of
the flavour. But the tutor laughed aloud. He certainly was an alarming
object, pulling those grimaces in the blue brandy glare; and
unpleasantly like a picture of Bogy himself with horns and a tail, in a
juvenile volume upstairs. True, there were no horns to speak of among
the tutor's grizzled curls, and his coat seemed to fit as well as most
people's on his long back, so that unless he put his tail in his
pocket, it is difficult to see how he could have had one. But then (as
Miss Letitia said) "With dress one can do anything and hide anything,"
and on dress Miss Letitia's opinion was final.

Miss Letitia was a cousin. She was dark, high-coloured, glossy-haired,
stout, and showy. She was as neat as a new pin, and had a will of her
own. Her hair was firmly fixed by bandoline, her garibaldis by an
arrangement which failed when applied to those of the widow, and her
opinions by the simple process of looking at everything from one point
of view. Her _forte_ was dress and general ornamentation; not that
Miss Letitia was extravagant--far from it. If one may use the
expression, she utilized for ornament a hundred bits and scraps that
most people would have wasted. But, like other artists, she saw
everything through the medium of her own art. She looked at birds with
an eye to hats, and at flowers with reference to evening parties. At
picture exhibitions and concerts she carried away jacket patterns and
bonnets in her head, as other people make mental note