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quo;can be no higher than my own; you have certainly some influence with your brother; why, then, will you suffer him thus egregiously to expose himself?’&

t, far from impressing his fellow-labourer with more respect, the moment he uttered a single word of his new lesson, the boy almost rolled upon the floor with convulsive merriment.Sir Hugh, with whom these phrases neither lost nor gained by mistaking one word for another, appealed to Dr. Orkborne to remedy what he conceived to be an unaccountable failure. Dr. Orkborne, absorbed in his new personal pursuit, to which he daily grew more devoted, was earnest to be as little as possible interrupted, and therefore only advised him to study his last lesson, before he pressed for any thing new.Study, however, was unavailing, and he heard this injunction with despair; but finding it constantly repeated upon every application for help, he was seized with a horror of the whole attempt, and begged to consult with Mr. Tyrold.‘This gentleman you have recommended to me for my tutor,’ he cried, ‘is certainly a great scholar; I don’t mean to doubt that the least in the world, being no judge: and he is complaisant enough too, considering all that; but yet I have rather a suspicion he is afraid I shall make no hand of it; which is a thing so disheartening to a person in the line of improvement, that, to tell you the honest truth, I am thinking of giving the whole up at a blow; for, Lord help me! What shall I be the better for knowing Latin and Greek? It’s not worth a man’s while to think of it, after being a boy. And so, if you please, I’d rather you’d take Lionel home again.’Mr. Tyrold agreed; but asked what he meant to do further concerning the Doctor?‘Why that, brother, is the very thing my poor ignorant head wants your advice for: because, as to that plan about our learning all together, I see it won’t do; for either the boys will grow up to be no better scholars than their uncle, which is to say, none at all; or else they’ll hold everybody cheap, when they meet with a person knowing nothing; so I’ll have no more hand in it. And I shall really be glad enough to get such a thing off my mind; for it’s been weight enough upon it from the beginning.’He then desired the opinion of Mr. Tyrold what step he should take to prevent the arrival of Clermont Lynmere, whom, he said, he dreaded to see, being determined to have no more little boys about him for some time to come.Mr. Tyrold recommended re-settling him at Eton: but Sir Hugh declared he could not possibly do that, because the poor little fellow had written him word he was glad to leave school. ‘And I don’t doubt,’ he added, ‘but he’ll make the best figure of us all; because I had him put in the right m