The outlay on the latter yielded no adequate return. It
afforded some shelter for chapel roll-call, and for the few minutes'
lounge before evening prayers, except when it rained hard enough, and
then the water poured through the contractor's felt roof. It was too
narrow to be used, as was hoped, for games; unless, indeed, we had turned
it into a skittle-alley. But then skittles is a game of low connections.
Finally, well-wishers were solemn in their warnings that the drainage of
the spot was defective (which, indeed, was no otherwise than true, till
we brought about a reform), and that our settlement by the sea was
nothing if it was not healthy.
The outlook then was not unclouded. But one bright day we had before we
said good-bye to the past, and fronted the future cares. Sir Pryse had
invited the school to spend a day with him at Gogerddan, Thursday, July
20th, the last day of term. Room was found for all his guests to dine
together in a large barn near the house, where, from the high and narrow
windows, the light fell in picturesque mellowness on the close-packed
ranks.
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