There's nothing for candour like a lower-school boy, and
East was a genuine specimen--frank, hearty, and good-natured, well- satisfied with himself and his position, and choke-full of life and spirits, and all the Rugby prejudices and traditions which he had been able to get together in the long course of one half- year during which he had been at the School-house.
As a ruler, the
East Wind has a remarkable stability; as an invader of the high latitudes lying under the tumultuous sway of his great brother, the Wind of the West, he is extremely difficult to dislodge, by the reason of his cold craftiness and profound duplicity.
