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His state of mind, indeed, was little short of that as he went sullenly to his tutor's house, with the sight of Crawley, raised on his comrades' shoulders, in his eyes, their cheers ringing in his ears, and the thoughts of Cain in his heart. "I shall give up cricket," he said to Edwards next day; "it's a beastly game." "I don't care for it myself," replied his friend; "only, what is one to do?"
The propositions of Euclid proved so engrossing to Galileo that it was thought wise to avoid further distraction by terminating the mathematical tutor's engagement. But it was too late for the desired end to be attained. Galileo had now made such progress that he was able to continue his geometrical studies by himself.
The tutor's lips curled into a grim smile as he perused this pleasing document, and then tossed it into the waste-paper basket. He relieved his feelings with a few chords on the piano, and then, after a few more uneasy turns in his room, went off to call on his co-trustee. On his way down-stairs he met Rosalind and her escort about to take their departure. "Come along with us, do!" said Tom.
"On the principle that two and two make four, I suppose we may conclude that my co-trustee is on toast at present," said the tutor. "And further, that that co-trustee being somebody's father, you are the man to get him off it." The tutor's face clouded, and his glass dropped with a twang from his eye.
'The fairy-tale of Christianity' 'The origins of Christian Mythology. He could recall, as the words rose in his memory, the simplicity of the rugged face, and the melancholy mingled with fire which had always marked the great tutor's sayings about religion. 'Fairy Tale! Could any reasonable man watch a life like Catherine's and believe that nothing but a delusion lay at the heart of it?
His father asked what he had learned, and Dickie told, dwelling, perhaps, more on the riding, and the fencing, and the bowls, and the music than on the sour-faced tutor's side of the business. "But I've learned a lot of Greek and Latin, too," he added in a hurry, "and poetry and things like that." "I fear," said the father, "thou dost not love thy book."
"And Rashleigh indulged your propensity to learning?" "Why, he wished to have me for his scholar, and he could but teach me that which he knew himself he was not likely to instruct me in the mysteries of washing lace-ruffles, or hemming cambric handkerchiefs, I suppose." "I admit the temptation of getting such a scholar, and have no doubt that it made a weighty consideration on the tutor's part."
She was sorry for Mr Armstrong, but she was vexed too that he should go off the very first day after her arrival, and leave her to fight her battles alone. After that talk on the steamer, she had, in her own mind, reckoned on him as an ally, and it disappointed her not to find him at her bidding after all. But she was not the only person whose mind was exercised by the tutor's abrupt exodus.
Number Five showed some curiosity about the Tutor's relations with the two Annexes. She suggested whether it would not be well to ask one or both of them in to take part in their readings. The Tutor blushed and hesitated. "Perhaps you would like to ask one of them," said Number Five. "Which one shall it be?" "It makes no difference to me which," he answered, "but I do not see that we need either."
IT was settled that after a course of three years at a private tutor's I was to go to Cambridge. The life I had led for the past three years was not the best training for the fellow-pupil of lads of fifteen or sixteen who had just left school. They were much more ready to follow my lead than I theirs, especially as mine was always in the pursuit of pleasure. I was first sent to Mr.
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