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Mr. Crabb, you may work with Walter from nine to one. This, with perhaps an hour or more devoted to study in the afternoon or evening, will enable him to make fair progress." This arrangement struck Walter favorably, as he could, whenever he desired it, spend the whole afternoon with Hector. Hector found it very pleasant to act upon the suggestion made by Mr. Ross.
Other women were aboard the Queen; could not General Crabb find room for her? It is hard for a soldier to refuse a pretty woman or a prominent member of the committee on military affairs. There was not a vacant stateroom on the ship.
"Does anyone know who threw it?" asked Mr. Crabb. "I think it was the new scholar," said Jim Smith, with a malicious look at Hector. "Master Roscoe," said Mr. Crabb, with a pained look, "I hope you have not started so discreditably in your school life." "No, sir," answered Hector; "I hope I am not so ungentlemanly. I don't like to be an informer, but I saw Smith himself throw it at you.
He rang a hand bell, and a lank boy, of fifteen, appeared. "Wilkius," said Mr. Smith, "this is a new scholar, Hector Roscoe. Take him to the playground, and introduce him to Mr. Crabb." "All right, sir. Come along." This last was addressed to Hector, who went out with the new boy. "I thought it best to speak with you briefly about Hector, Professor Smith," commenced Allan Roscoe.
The earliest notice which I have found of him from an outsider is a passage in Crabb Robinson's diaries. Robinson met him on July 10, 1811, and describes him as a 'pious sentimentalist and moralist, who spoke of his prospects 'with more indifference than was perhaps right in a layman. The notice is oddly characteristic.
His sister rose after a while, and commenced walking up and down in the same manner on the opposite side of the table, and in the course of half an hour they took their leave. Landor, in commenting on this passage, says it is evident that Willis 'fidgeted the Lambs, and seems rather unaccountably annoyed at his having alluded to Crabb Robinson simply as 'a barrister.
"I shall not be annoyed at all when you find me out in a mistake, for I don't pretend to be very learned." "Then I think we'll get along," said Walter, favorably impressed by the usher's modesty. "I suppose if I didn't know anything we should get along even better," said Mr. Crabb, amused. "Well, perhaps that might be carrying things too far!" Walter admitted.
"Have you heard from your friend?" asked the usher, hopefully. "Yes, and it's all right." Mr. Crabb looked ten years younger. "Is it really true?" he asked. "It is true that you are engaged as private tutor to my friend, Walter. You'll find him a splendid fellow, but I don't know if the pay is sufficient," continued Hector, gravely.
It offered a way of escape, both for the unfortunate usher and himself. Nothing could be more "apropos" to quote Walter's expression. Our hero lost no time in seeking out Mr. Crabb. "You seem in good spirits, Roscoe," said the usher, his careworn face contrasting with the beaming countenance of his pupil. "Yes, Mr. Crabb, I have reason to be, and so have you."
The essay is very slightly altered from a letter written by Lamb to Crabb Robinson, January 20, 1827, describing the death of Randal Morris. It was printed in the first edition only of the Last Essays of Elia; its place being taken afterwards by the "Confessions of a Drunkard," an odd exchange. The essay was omitted, in deference, it is believed, to the objection of Mrs.
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