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A yellow, time-worn sheet of foolscap, on which during the last year of his school-life he wrote his desiderata in the way of books, tells something of his progress and his aspirations at fourteen years of age.
Be ye therefore ready, for you know not at what day or at what hour the voice may call to you!" The loss of a well-known companion whom all respected and many loved the crowding memories of school-life the still small voice of every conscience, gave strange meaning and force to the bishop's simple words.
Carey about your coming; so I can send over a note this evening to let him know." The remainder of that day Arthur could scarcely think of anything else than the prospect that was before him on the morrow his first entering on school-life.
The rector bowed in a very courteous manner. "School-life may not be really necessary for them," he said; "although you know my opinion in short you know what I would do with them did they belong to me." Mrs. Cardew was silent for a minute or two.
And as she looked along the line of carriages, as it dragged on slowly through the crowd, another memory flashed into her mind a half-forgotten picture from her school-life in the convent. She suddenly came to think of the story of Pharaoh and his war-chariots following the children of Israel through the Red Sea.
Very fortunately, Maggie received her card when none of her schoolfellows were present; but it was certainly the reverse of reassuring. School-life began in real earnest, and school-life at Aylmer House was so stimulating, so earnest, so invigorating, that all that was best in each girl was brought to the fore.
It is true that I am asking you to tell a lie, but it is a very innocent one, and its good intention will counteract its sinfulness may God grant we never have worse upon our consciences! Thus, instead of lessons and the solemn precepts of your tutors, instead of a monotonous school-life, you are going to enjoy your liberty; also the pleasures of the court and the world.
She will have, they say, a hundred 'thousand pounds in her own right! Rose Jocelyn, the daughter of Sir Franks, and that eccentric Lady Jocelyn. She is with her uncle, Melville, the celebrated diplomate though, to tell you the truth, we turn him round our fingers, and spin him as the boys used to do the cockchafers. I cannot forget our old Fallow field school-life, you see, my dears.
It was in Passion week, of the fifth year of my school-life and ever through those years she had become more bent and her voice had sunk lower, so that many a time we found it hard to hear her that it fell that she could no longer quit her cell; and she sent me a bidding to go to her bedside, and with me only two of us all: to wit my Ann, and Elsa Ebner, a right good child and a diligent bee in her work.
Shortly after this change in his circumstances he became an advocate of thrift, temperance, and steady industry, and quitted the International Association, of which he had been an enthusiastic supporter when dependent on his own skill and taste as a working mason. During these occurrences Agatha's school-life ended.
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