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It was only privately printed, and a few thousand copies were distributed among select personages as an especial favour and mark of high consideration. Each copy given away seemed to Rigby like a certificate of character; a property which, like all men of dubious repute, he thoroughly appreciated. Rigby intrigued very much that the headmaster of Eton should adopt his discourse as a class-book.
Several of the pupils had historical atlases open before them, which covered the history of the world from the most ancient times to the present, prepared with that excellence which has made German maps famous. The compendium used for a class-book was a brief record of dates and events in Roman type, which is gradually but surely superseding the old German letters.
At the present time he is going through a class-book which teaches him the language to be used in audience with the Son of Heaven he will probably be taken before the emperor when he is old enough. But now he is not living the life of a boy no playmates, no toys, no romps and frolics. He, like Topsy, merely grows in surroundings which only a dark prison life can give him.
Confused though he was for a moment, he gave his demonstration in his quaint speech with perfect clearness and without interruption from the professor, who gave the boy a keen look as he said, quietly: "Very good, sir!" And Harry could see his fingers tracing in his class-book the figures that meant a perfect recitation. "How are you, Chad?" he said in the hallway afterward.
Before I was through delivering the message, however, God had lifted me above the mountain, so that I was never again troubled in that way. My name was still on the M. E. class-book; but God showed me that I ought to have it removed, and how to have it removed. I sent for my church letter and trusted the Lord to direct me how to dispose of it.
When the parson's daughter locked the drawer of the bandy-legged table, she did so with the vigor of one who has made up her mind, and set about the rest of her Saturday night's duties without further delay. She put out her Sunday clothes, and her Bible and Prayer-book, and class-book and pencil, on the oak chest at the foot of the bed.
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