The complication traced to ignorance of one
another's speech (the boys spoke no Welsh, and she would have done more
wisely to speak no English), and a _modus vivendi_ was easily restored.
Poor soul! she took a pathetic farewell of them when their sojourn ended:
"They must forgive her for having a quick temper; she had had much
trouble; her husband and four sons had gone down at sea."
On Friday came a piece of cheering news. Some sympathisers were
intending to appeal to parents of boys in the school for subscriptions to
a fund, which should help to defray the expense incurred by the masters
in moving and resettling the school. The appeal met with a liberal
response in many quarters; a large sum was raised, though from a number
of subscribers smaller than the promoters of the fund expected. Men, who
were feeling the double pressure at once of keen and novel cares, and of
an outlay already large, which no one could see to the end of, will not
forget that well-timed succour. Not least will it be remembered as a
"material guarantee" that the subscribers believed the cause they aided
to be worth a costly effort to save.
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