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The talk ended in Mr. Riley recommending a country parson named Stelling as a suitable tutor for Tom, and Mr. Tulliver decided that his son should go to Mr. Stelling at King's Lorton, fifteen miles from Dorlcote Mill. II. School-Time Tom Tulliver's sufferings during the first quarter he was at King's Lorton, under the distinguished care of the Rev. Walter Stelling, were rather severe.
To this day, the mere sight of a fuchsia will bring back to my mind Lady Dasher's little drawing-room; and I can fancy myself sitting in the old easy- chair by the window, and listening to that morbid lady's chit-chat. Presently my lady came in, pale and melancholy, as usual, and with her normal expression of acutest woe. "Dear me, Mr Lorton! how very ill you are looking, to be sure.
"Mr Lorton," he answered, "you know I would do anything for you I honestly could, for you 'ave been a friend to me many a time, specially when I got into that row with the tax collector, when you be'aved 'andsome. But to speak to the rights of the matter, I can't say I know the lady's name wot the parsun is agoin' to marry: I only has my suspicions like."
The notoriety of "the Second Reformation" was chiefly due to the ostentatious patronage of it by the lay chiefs of the Irish oligarchy. Mr. Synge, in Clare, Lord Lorton, and Mr. McClintock at Dundalk, were indefatigable in their evangelizing exertions. The Earl of Roden to show his entire dependence on the translated Bible threw all his other books into a fish pond on his estate.
My speech, however, produced no impression; she quickly parried my weak thrust, returning me tierce en carte. "But they were all old friends, Mr Lorton: that made it quite a different thing," she said, very coldly, although with the sweetest expression. I daresay Jael smiled very pleasantly when she drove that nail into Sisera's temple! I thought I perceived a slight loophole for attack.
But, you may now ask, what on earth have I, Frank Lorton, got to do with all this; especially at the present moment, when I have not yet passed my examination before Her Majesty's Polite Letter Writer Commissioners? What, indeed!
"Mr Lorton, I will report you, sir!" was all he said to me directly; but, as he shuffled off to his desk, with the attendance book recording my misdeeds under his arm and his face purple with passion, we all could hear him muttering pretty loudly to himself. "Smudge! Smudge!" he was repeating; "I'll Smudge him, the impudent rascal! I wonder what the dooce he meant by it!
There are Lorton and Swanton my lord can do as he pleases with them, and they'll go from you; and your cousin Meg, ugly and long in the tooth as she is, shall have them! You may put this beggar's wench in my chair, but you shall smart for it as long as you live! 'I'll marry whom I like! he said. 'Then you'll buy her dear, cried my lady, ashake with rage.
"But I love Min, Mrs Clyde," I stammered "and she has promised " "Dear me! This is quite delicious," laughed Mrs Clyde a cold sneering laugh, which made me shiver as if cold water were running down my back "quite a comedy, I do declare, Mr Lorton. I did not think you were so good an actor. Love! Ha, ha, ha!" and she gave forth a merry peal to my intense enjoyment, you may be sure. Oh, yes!
"Ah," said I, "he got that by letting other people's business alone!" "Bai-ey Je-ove!" said Horner, quite staggered at this second blow. "Vewy amusing anecdote, indeed! Thank you, Lorton. Much obwiged, and all that sawt of thing, for the in-fawmation. Yaas, bai-ey Je-ove! And so I'll say good day.
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