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wolflord_andain) wrote2008-06-21 10:39 pm
wolflord_andain) wrote2008-06-21 10:39 pm
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Having discovered that several among the current class were still unable to translate relatively simple passages, Galadan has chosen to use today for reviewing declensions of nouns.
He paces in front of the class, careful to keep out any hints of predator, lecturing in a cool even voice. Occasionally he pauses to scribe a series of words on the chalk board, or to ask a quick, sharp question of someone who appears inattentive.
It is a long, grueling class period.
He is slowly growing used to that. His students--
May not be.
He paces in front of the class, careful to keep out any hints of predator, lecturing in a cool even voice. Occasionally he pauses to scribe a series of words on the chalk board, or to ask a quick, sharp question of someone who appears inattentive.
It is a long, grueling class period.
He is slowly growing used to that. His students--
May not be.
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It says: He's always assigning you readings. What passages are his favorites?
Mary risks turning around to aim a scathing look at Susan and roll her eyes meaningfully. Then she drops the paper on the floor. Then she stomps on it.
For a while all is quiet and industry.
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Just slightly.
But he pays no more attention to Mary (and the note on the floor) than he does any other student.
Save, perhaps, for the one girl who has begun dreamily doodling heroic poses on her paper.
"As today has not involved any Greek translations, Miss Elsingham, I do think you might save your artwork for another time. Though you may, of course, feel free to translate a page of the Iliad for next week."
It's quite amazing how swiftly she, too, returns to industrious note-taking.
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Lacey tries nudging Susan's foot with hers, but this, too, has no apparent effect, so Lacey resorts to giving her a kick. At this, Susan finally looks up, and Lacey reaches over to pass a note.
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"I do hope neither of you have taken up a hobby involving cheating. Or any other unsavory practices, of course."
This would be where he reads the note. He'll decide whether or not to read it aloud after that.
He is, after all, hardly a rule-bound fool.
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Susan looks furious (at Lacey.)
Mary, although neither of them can see her face, looks hideously smug.
The note looks like a piece of paper with these words on it:
Weren't we meant to do Catullus today? I might die of his divineness if he read Catullus out loud. Especially in translation!
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Or, of course, in the chill settling in his winter-grey eyes.
"Since you two seem to be so very interested in Catullus, you may prepare a recitation for next week, on your own translation of two pages of text. Perhaps it will allow your skills to improve. Of late your attention has proved to be very lax."
He waves the note very briefly, as if to indicate the kind of laxity to which he refers, and then tosses it casually into the wastebasket.
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"Would you prefer to translate four pages of Catullus?"
That could, after all, be easily enough arranged.
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"Perhaps, sir. It depends on the pages."
There are scattered gasps from around the room; Susan Merriweaather always does go TOO FAR.
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"I think you might benefit more from continued practice in noun declensions. Fifty repetitions of each. I expect to see them on my desk by the end of this week. In addition to Catullus."
And with that he returns to his position near the chalkboard.
"And now, if we might continue--"
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Mary Lennox, on the other hand, looks nearly as pleased as anyone at the school has ever seen her - but it's not as if anyone but Mr. Wolfe is likely to be able to tell. And even if Susan could see her face, she would only think that it would be like that Lennox girl to be pleased that someone else had gotten in trouble.