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Updated: July 14, 2025
Unless something unexpected happens to the laddie unless he take to playing at scholarship as if it were a Jacobite rebellion, for instance he shouldna have the ghost of a chance of a bursary, and if he were any other boy as ill-prepared I should be ashamed to send him up, but he is Tommy Sandys, you see, and it is a terrible thing to say, but it's Gospel truth, it's Gospel truth I'm trusting to the possibility of his diddling the examiners!"
Is it any wonder that, instead of turning to the lying pages and contorted sentences of the Livy which he had already unpacked from his box, he forgot all about school, and college, and bursary, and went on playing till his landlady brought up his dinner, which he swallowed hastily that he might return to the spells of his enchantress!
While the school-master was dwelling on the argument that he was pretty sure to gain a good bursary, and she would thus be relieved for four years, probably for ever, from further expense on his account, Robert entered. 'Whaur hae ye been, Robert? asked Mrs. Falconer. 'At Dooble Sanny's, answered the boy. 'What hae ye been at there? 'Helpin' him till 's bed. 'What's come ower him?
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