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'O Guy, you must not go before that! cried Charlotte. 'Are you going away? 'He is very naughty, indeed, said Charlotte. 'He is going, I don't know where all, to be stupid, and read mathematics. 'A true bill, I am sorry to say, said Guy; 'I am to join a reading-party for the latter part of the vacation.
Lady Delacour's curiosity was raised by the description which Belinda and Clarence Hervey had given of the new acquaintance who sent her the gold fishes, and who wanted nothing from her but her love. Miss Portman told her that the unknown would probably come half an hour earlier to the reading-party than any of the rest of the company.
Macaulay goes to the University His love for Trinity College His contemporaries at Cambridge Charles Austin The Union Debating Society University studies, successes, and failures The Mathematical Tripos The Trinity Fellowship William the Third Letters Prize poems Peterloo Novel-reading The Queen's Trial Macaulay's feeling towards his mother A Reading-party Hoaxing an editor Macaulay takes pupils.
She did not believe that they enjoyed Homer a bit more than she did; but the right pose was to pretend that they did; so they posed and pretended, according to order, and Beth posed and pretended too, just to see what would come of it. It was a young tutor in charge of a reading-party who helped Beth with the Latin grammar. He managed to ingratiate himself with Mrs.
Froude had no ambition, believing that he should soon die. But a reading-party during the Long Vacation of 1839 resulted in an engagement, which changed the course of his life. Hitherto he had been under the impression that nobody cared for him at all, and that it mattered not what became of him. The sense of being valued by another person made him value himself.
M'Fadyen, the large factor; the Established Church, U.F., Wee Free, Episcopalian, and Original Secession ministers, all of whom, together with their kirks, flourished within a four-mile radius of the Castle; the wives to three of the above; three young men and their tutor, being some portion of a reading-party in the village; and Mrs.
His first Easter vacation he spent with a reading-party in Cumberland. There he first tasted the "sacred fury" of the mountains and mountain-climbing, and in Switzerland the next August it grew to be a passion.
"The ceremony of a morning visit is quite unnecessary here," said Belinda: "I will introduce the unknown friend to you to-morrow, if you will let me invite her to your reading-party." "With pleasure. She is some charming emigree of Clarence Hervey's acquaintance. But where did you meet with her this morning? You have both of you conspired to puzzle me.
When the time came that she had gained all the knowledge which the old schoolmaster could impart to her, she left the school, and formed a reading-party with two youths of her own age. These lads, by name Wei and Tu, had been her school-fellows, and were delighted at obtaining her promise to join them in their studies.
'You know, papa said something about your taking your reading-party to Redclyffe. 'True, but I don't think Markham would like it, and it would put old Mrs. Drew into no end of a fuss. 'Not like to have you? 'O yes, I should be all very well; but if they heard I was bringing three or four men with me, they would think them regular wild beasts. They would be in an awful fright.
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