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I will try my luck as you advise; perhaps with coaching and the money I have by me I need not take advantage of all your kindness, but there is no one I would come to for help like you when I can keep up no longer. I'll take my call at Michaelmas! And they walked out together, Mr. Shelford taking his arm affectionately through the streets.
And there was a fellow standing outside, a bigger fellow than me, and he caught hold of me by the collar and ran me right in and shut the door and bolted. And Mr. Shelford came at me and boxed my ears, and said it wasn't the first time, and I should have a detention card for it. And so he gave me this, and I'm to go up to the Doctor with it and get it signed when it's done!
He shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men." Shelford: February 22, 1813. My dear Papa, As this is a whole holiday, I cannot find a better time for answering your letter. With respect to my health, I am very well, and tolerably cheerful, as Blundell, the best and most clever of all the scholars, is very kind, and talks to me, and takes my part. He is quite a friend of Mr.
'What are you going to do with yourself, Ashburn, now? said Mr. Shelford in his abrupt way as they went along. 'Going to be a schoolmaster and live on the crambe repetita all your life, hey? 'I don't know, said Mark sullenly; 'very likely. If you feel any interest in the boys 'Which I don't, put in Mark.
Shelford for me he'd listen to you, and he won't to me. 'He will have gone by this time, objected Mark. 'Not if you make haste, said the boy, eagerly. Mark was rather flattered by this confidence in his persuasive powers: he liked the idea, too, of posing as the protector of his class, and the good-natured element in him made him the readier to yield.
And the boy held out the paper, at the top of which Mark read in old Shelford's tremulous hand 'Langton. 100 lines for outrageous impertinence. J. Shelford. 'If I go up, you know, sir, said the boy, with a trembling lip, 'I'm safe for a swishing.
Preston, at Little Shelford, a village in the immediate vicinity of Cambridge. The motives which guided this selection were mainly of a religious nature. Mr. Preston held extreme Low Church opinions, and stood in the good books of Mr. Simeon, whose word had long been law in the Cambridge section of the Evangelical circle.
Rosslyn House, which stood between Wedderburn and Lyndhurst Roads, deserves a word of mention as one of the latest of the famous old Hampstead houses to be destroyed. It was originally called Shelford House, but changed its name when it became the property of Alexander Wedderburn, first Earl of Rosslyn, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, 1793.
Peter's, although Mr. Shelford strongly advised him to go in for some regular profession besides literature. 'There'll come a day, he told him, 'when you've played out all your tunes and your barrel is worn smooth, and no one will throw you any more coppers. Then you'll want a regular employment to fall back upon. Why don't you get called? 'Because I don't want to be tied down, said Mark.
'I never heard them give any reason, said the boy, diplomatically. Mr. Shelford let the boy go with another chuckle, and Langton retired to his form again out of earshot. 'Yes, Ashburn, said old Jemmy, 'that's the name they have for me one of 'em. "Prawn" and "Shellfish" they yell it out after me as I'm going home, and then run away. And I've had to bear it thirty years.
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