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"And so George is a double-first," said Mrs. Wilkinson. "Yes," said the vicar, with his mouth full of toast; not evincing any great satisfaction at the success of his late pupil. When the mother read the short postscript her heart was touched, and she put her handkerchief up to her face. "Poor Arthur! I am sure it has not been his own fault."
He left the University with the honors of "a double-first class;" and his constitution appeared to rally from the effects of studies more severe to him than they might have been to a man of quicker and more brilliant capacities, when a feverish cold, caught at a county meeting in which his first public appearance was so creditable as fully to justify the warmest hopes of his party, produced inflammation of the lungs and ended fatally.
The vacillation was awful; it amounted to an agony; it involved all the circles; the newspapers were profoundly moved. The Gryphon starts. The mind of Calcutta is turned upon the Gryphon. A thousand blue eyes and ten thousand black focus him. He takes his seat. A double-first class carriage has been reserved.
It was at Oxford, in the year 184 , that a young man sat in his college-rooms at Balliol a wretched victim to unsuccessful competition. It had been everything to him to come out as a first in classics, and he had dared to dream even of a double-first. But he had failed in both. The lists had just appeared, and he was only a second-class man.
I am not a readin' man; and a man that is not a readin' man is nearly always a dancin' man. The governor is a readin' man, and took a double-first; but I am like my poor mother, who was dull."
In its way this bit of intelligence meant as much to the basketmaker as, "Have you heard that young Fitz-Grubber has just got the double-first at Oxford?" or, "Do you know that old Cheshire has managed that appointment in India for his boy? splendid independence, isn't it?"
He offered it on the condition that I should be an attorney." "An attorney! and you with a double-first?" "Ah, he does not much value double-firsts. Of course, I was not going to make myself an attorney." "Of course not. But what is he doing about an allowance for you?" "He has been very liberal. He has given me a hundred and fifty a year " "Yes; and sent me the bill of it with great regularity."
"Orders!" said Sir Lionel; and he expressed more surprise and almost more disgust at this idea than at that other one respecting the attorney scheme. "Yes; I have been long doubting; but I think I have made up my mind." "Do you mean that you wish to be a parson, and that after taking a double-first?" "I don't see what the double-first has to do with it, sir.
A double-first his father had not hoped for; but, in resolving not to hope for it, he had consoled himself with thinking that the hopes which he did form were the more certain of success; and then there would always be that further chance of happiness in store. But now Arthur Wilkinson had to tell his father that he was neither first nor double-first.
He gained a double-first, and in the first class of mathematics he stood alone. Such a success at once stamped him as a youth of extraordinary promise, and the impression it made was especially great because, the examination system having been very recently reorganised, he was the first Oxford man who had attained it.
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