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"He has finished his examinations, and it seems almost certain that he will be senior classic. His tutor at Trinity has written already to congratulate my husband upon his success." "I am sure, I am delighted, too," said the squire, who had regained his composure but kept his hold on Stamboul's collar. "He deserves all he gets, and more too," he continued. "I think he will be a remarkable man."
Everybody listened for the effects of the king's eloquence; he was urging them to undress, and saying that it would be unmannerly to refuse; there could be no humiliation in it, he said, as he himself had been the first to submit. The tutor felt that it would not do to give the king a refusal, and told them that they must give in, and thereupon the two Florentines took off their clothes.
But if Sir Peter sends his son at the age of sixteen to a tutor who eliminates the religion of Christianity from his teaching, he deserves to be thrashed within an inch of his life; and," continued the Parson, eying Sir Peter sternly, and mechanically turning up his cuffs, "I should like to thrash him." "Gently, John," said Sir Peter, recoiling; "gently, my dear kinsman.
The same is the case with trades, and is specially exemplified in the instance of trades-unions, or, their mediaeval prototypes, the guilds. A college or a school, again, has its own rules and traditions, which the tutor or undergraduate, the master or boy, can often only violate at his extreme peril. Almost every club, institution, and society affords another instance in point.
"Why, but that is no news at all. I knew he was coming, and I saw them together this morning." "You saw them and you knew he was coming?" faltered the tutor. "You mean to you mean he writes to you, that you correspond with him?" "I mean nothing whatsoever beyond what I said, Mr. Elmendorf, that I knew Mr.
And I should like to go to the top of this great high hill, and see all round; but mamma says she has got a bone in her leg, and cannot go. 'Do you think mamma would give you leave to go up with me? Should you like it? She coloured all over; too happy even to thank him. 'Then, said Guy to his tutor, 'I will meet you here when you have done your business in the town, in an hour or so.
I sincerely pray God to grant a long and serene evening to a life so gloriously devoted to the universal happiness of the world. We have mentioned, incidentally, that George Washington Motier de Lafayette, the son of the general, with his tutor, M. Frestel, accompanied Washington on his journey from Philadelphia to Mount Vernon.
The doctor had been my tutor, and in spite of my waywardness and lack of love for the classics had taught me no little Latin and Greek, and early instilled into my mind those principles necessary for the soul's salvation. I have often thought with regret on the pranks I played him.
But to produce something nobody had ever seen before that beats me! How did he ever get the idea in the first place?" The tutor smiled. "Mr. Bell did not set out to make a telephone, Laurie," he answered. "What he was aiming to do was to perfect a harmonic telegraph, a scheme to which he had been devoting a good deal of his time.
And not easily, in dread of this danger, would one change his tutor, and so procure variety of instruction.
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