Sentence:  And, being no <WSD>lickpot</WSD>, would be left to watch the breakfast-porridge while the Sisters and Catechists went to Mass with the pupils of the school, on the benches of which young Boengabadu maintained isolated pre-eminence as a genuine Aboriginal converted from utterest heathenry, by the efforts of Pere St. Xavier and Pere Amable-Marie. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An untrustworthy sycophant.