Mauritius

In order to welcome students and parents, Maurice thought he was at the Hague Conference (Annotation: Two international conferences were held in The Hague, Netherlands in 1899 and 1907. agreement, but signed a convention for the peaceful settlement of international disputes. The second meeting also failed to reach an agreement on the issue of arms limitation, but the spirit of the meeting had a great impact on the establishment of the League of Nations after World War I.) Speaking at the meeting, pointed out that How stupid the spirit is. "Oh, men of Europe, agree to abolish war, what folly! Ah? Isn't Ares the son of Zeus, the god of war? Besides, war will make you exercise your limbs and make your body strong, unlike my opponents. Different." Maurice's Greek was terrible, and he won the prize for his insights, that's all.The teacher in charge had given him a wide mark because he was a decent graduate and was about to go to Cambridge.There, arranging the books that were awarded to him as prizes on the bookshelves can help promote the school.So he accepted Grote's "History of Greece" to thunderous applause. .When he returned to the seat next to his mother, he was surprised to realize that he had become popular again.The applause continued, and even gave him a standing ovation.Ada and Kitty blushed and clapped at the end.Several students in the graduating class shouted loudly: "Speech!" This did not conform to the procedure and was stopped by the host.However, the headmaster himself got up and said a few words: Hall was one of them, and they will always see him that way.He got it right.The students applauded Morris not because he was outstanding, but because he was mediocre.One can glorify oneself in his image.Afterwards, people flocked to him, saying in a very sentimental tone: "That's great, man." They even sighed: "After you leave, this damn place won't be interesting." Light.In the past, when the family participated in school activities, he always expressed hostility towards them.After a football game, he's covered in mud and basking in the glory of victory.When the mother and sisters came running to stay with him, he said, "I'm sorry, Mom, you and the little ones have to go alone." That time, Ada cried.Right now, Ada is chatting skillfully with the monitor of the highest class.Kitty was being handed a plate of cake, and his mother was listening to the housemaster's wife complaining about the bad heating.It's frustrating.Everyone, everything, is suddenly in harmony.Is this the way the world is?

Morris saw his neighbor, Dr. Barry, standing not far away.The doctor noticed him and called out in a frighteningly loud voice: "Congratulations on your success, Maurice! I'm so touched! Here's to you." He drank it all down. "Disgusting tea."

Maurice smiled and walked toward him guiltily.He felt ashamed.Dr. Barry's nephew, who had been admitted to the school last term, had been entrusted to Maurice to take care of him.And yet he did nothing—didn't take it seriously.He felt grown up now and regretted not having had more courage, but it was too late.

"Where, then, is the next stage in your illustrious career? Cambridge?"

"They say so."

"They say so, don't they? How do you say it?"

"I don't know," said the hero of the day amiably.

"And after Cambridge? The Stock Exchange?"

"I thought so. My father's old partner said that if all goes well, let me participate."

"So what if your father's old partner lets you participate? A beautiful wife?"

Maurice laughed again.

"Will she give a Maurice III to the world in anticipation? Then comes old age, grandchildren, and finally daisy-covered graves. That's how you see careers, not mine."

"What is your opinion?" cried Kitty.

"Help the weak and right the wrong, dear," he replied, looking at her.

"I believe that is our opinion," said the housemaster's wife, and Mrs. Hall agreed.

"Ah, no, it's not. I'm not always like that, otherwise I should have taken care of my Dicky instead of staying in this fancy place."

"Please be sure to bring dear Dickie over to our house. Is his father coming?" asked Mrs. Hall.

"Mother!" Kitty whispered.

"My brother passed away last year," Dr. Barry said. "You are a noble man and forgetful. The war did not strengthen his limbs and his body as Maurice imagined. He has a bullet in the stomach."

He walked away.

"I think Dr. Barry has become cynical," Ada commented. "I think he's jealous." She was right.Dr. Barry was once a man who made women fall in love with him. He was dissatisfied when young people rushed to him.The unfortunate Maurice met him again.Maurice was saying goodbye to the housemaster's wife.She was a pretty woman, and she was courteous to the boys in the upper classes.They shook hands warmly.When Morris turned around and left, he heard Dr. Barry say: "Here, Morris is in full bloom, whether in love or on the battlefield, he is irresistible." eyes meet.

"I don't understand what you mean, Dr. Barry."

"Oh, you young men! Put on a serious face. Don't know what I mean! Too reserved with girls! Be honest, lads, be honest. You can't fool anybody. An open heart is a pure heart. I A doctor, old, and I tell you this. Men are born of women, and in order for humanity to continue to exist, they must move in step with women."

Maurice stared at the back of the housekeeper's wife, and felt a strong sense of disgust for her, and his face flushed.He remembered the diagrams drawn by Mr. Douchy.A distress -- less beautiful than sorrow -- rose to the surface of his consciousness, showed how ugly it was, and sank again.He didn't ask himself what it really was, because it wasn't time yet.However, the hints made to him by others made his hair stand on end.A hero though he was, he longed to be a little boy again, wandering forever half asleep along the colorless ocean.Dr. Barry continued to lecture him, and the doctor pretended to be friendly and said a lot of things that hurt him.

He chose the college attended by his close friend Chapman and other old schoolmates of Sunnington.During the strange first year of college life, he had few new experiences.He belonged to the old school club, they played sports together, they drank tea and dined together, spoke slang, sat next to each other in big restaurants and walked the streets with their arms crossed.They get drunk from time to time, and they boast mysteriously about women, but their mental outlook is still like that of high school students in public schools, and some of them can't get rid of it in their lives.There was no grudge between them and the other students, but they were not popular because they were clinging tightly together; they were too mediocre to be student leaders;All this satisfied Maurice.He was lazy by nature, and though his troubles were not solved, he added no new ones.The silence continued, and sensual thoughts less bothered him so much.He stood still in the darkness instead of groping around with his hands, as if that was the result of such painful preparations of body and soul.

The next year, he changed.He moved into the academy, and life there soaked him up.During the day he lived the same as before, but after nightfall, a new life began.In first grade, he made a big discovery.Adults interact politely unless there is a specific reason not to.Several third-year students had visited him in the bachelor dormitory.He thought they were going to smash his plate and throw insults at his mother's picture, but they didn't.So he doesn't have to waste time planning how to smash their plates one day.The gentleness of the instructors is even more amazing.Maurice himself was looking forward to this atmosphere in order to soften.He doesn't like rudeness, it's against his nature.In public school, however, he had to do this, or he would be trampled underfoot.He once guessed that in the wider battlefield of the university, this is even more necessary.

Once living at the academy, his discoveries abounded.People turned out to be real, and he always thought they were pieces of cardboard with ordinary patterns printed on them, and he himself was faking it.However, when he was strolling in the yard at night, through the window, he saw some students singing, others arguing, and some buried in their books.There can be no doubt that they were men with the same sentiments as he.After leaving Mr. Abraham's school, he never behaved frankly again.Despite Dr. Barry's lectures, he had no intention of changing his mind.Yet he understood that in deceiving others, he himself was deceived.He had hoped to be thought of as a hollow man, and had mistakenly assumed that others were like that.No, they are quite content. "However, my God, I hope it's not my content." Morris said since he thought other people were real people.