Paul heads to the Castle's main hall, where the boys and the other masters are gathered for morning prayers. Following a reading from a randomly chosen section of the Bible and a group recitation of the Lord's Prayer, Dr. Fagan makes several announcements concerning school business and disciplinary infractions. With the conclusion of this, everyone adjourns to their separate classrooms. Paul is in a panic at how to handle his first class. Grimes shows his typical carelessness, and Prendergast shows his habitual gallows humor.
Paul arrives in his classroom to find the boys suspiciously well behaved, a condition that quickly degenerates into chaos. Desperate to restore order, Paul is forced to fall back on the Grimesian method of simultaneously threatening to beat the boys with a walking stick, while offering a prize.....
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