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"But if the sacket thinks he can play any of his tricks on me," he told Aaron, "there is an awakening before him," and he began the cramming of Tommy for a bursary with perfect confidence. But before the end of the month, at the mere mention of Tommy's name, Mr. Cathro turned red in the face, and the fingers of his laying-on hand would clutch an imaginary pair of tawse.
The weaver considered, and then replied stubbornly, "No, I give him his chance, but I'll have nocht to do wi' his use o't. And, dominie, I want you to say not another word to me about him atween this and examination time, for my mind's made up no to say a word to him. But if he doesna carry a bursary, to the herding he goes. I've said it and I'll stick to it."
The ministers took this to mean that those who carried small bursaries were eligible, and indeed it had usually gone to a bursar. "Sentimental Tommy would not have been able to compete if he had got a bursary," Mr. Cathro explained, "because however small it was Mr.
It was under these conditions that is, amid the rudest privations that he ventured to enter a competitive examination for a bursary at the École Normale Primaire of Avignon; and his will-power realized this first miracle of his career he straightway obtained the highest place.
Had he thought that Grizel's discovery was making her unhappy he would have melted at once, but never did she look so proud as when she scornfully passed him by, and he wagged his head complacently over her coming chagrin when she heard that he had carried the highest bursary. Then she would know what she had flung away.
We are to double the value of the bursary he wins at the university " She could get no farther, for now Elspeth was hugging her, and Corp cheering frantically, and Mr. McLean thought it necessary to add the warning, "If he does carry a bursary, you understand, for should he fail I give him nothing." "Him fail!" exclaimed Corp, with whom Miss Ailie of course agreed.
To the latter especially, as I think I have said before, he was anxious to show well, wiping out the blot, as he considered it, of his all but failure in the matter of a bursary. For he looked up to her as to a goddess who just came near enough to the earth to be worshipped by him who dwelt upon it. The end of the session came nigh. Ericson passed his examinations with honour.
Sclater he competed for a bursary, and gained a tolerably good one, but declined accepting it. His guardian was annoyed, he could not see why he should refuse what he had "earned." Gibbie asked him whether it was the design of the founder of those bursaries that rich boys should have them. Were they not for the like of Donal? Whereupon Mr.
"Mother, this is the chaff pillow you've taken out of my bed, and given me your feather one." "Gavin, you needna change them. I winna have the feather pillow." "Do you dare to think I'll let you sleep on chaff? Put up your head. Now, is that soft?" "It's fine. I dinna deny but what I sleep better on feathers. Do you mind, Gavin, you bought this pillow for me the moment you got your bursary money?"
The first and most-serious-but-one ordeal in the life of Robert Chalmers Fordyce so Robert Chalmers himself informed me years afterwards was the examination for the Bursary which he gained at Edinburgh University. A bursary is what an English undergraduate would call a "Schol."
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