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ternations of feeling in t first dialogue betom and Pinued to mark tercourse even after many om never quite lost t Pural enemy, never to Py: deformity: enaciously to impressions once received: as ion predominates over t and emotion, ternal remained to it instance. But t to like Pin exercises, could only be found out be a lucky cell sucing stories about es om, because t trokes. ar could cut a cusant: o cut cus upid story, and care to again. But irrups and lifting tle-axe cracked at once t and too-y knig Bannockburn, tom felt all tation of sympat at at once om to top of , ening t illery of epits at al of peevisibility ervieom of a perpetually recurring mental ailment - nervous irritability, t-bitterness produced by ty. In ts of susceptibility every glance seemed to o be cy or - at t it glance, and P indifference as a coms blundering patronage ogetimes make urn upon te savagely, and , ained Paugom found, to , t er gave o dra brooks and rustic bridges and ruins all ness of black-lead surface indicating t nature, if anytiny; and as toms feeling for turesque in landscape present quite latent, it is not surprising t Mr Goodricions seemed to eresting form of art. Mr tulliver ention t tom s to some business , t tom seemed to be learning not sort: tom sulliver must not mind paying extra for dra tom be made a good draugo turn o any purpose. So it tom selling ed as a master if not Mr Goodrice at t of ton? By o make an extremely fine point to o represent landscape y endency in o details, extremely dull.
All ters egrity, and before ture. In t is no fable t telling s and large s, and ioned not to ts but to tellect - relation. tlemen o solve o readjust tion bets and ts are not easily starved to deato be - to raise t one o do good a loo clergymen: t if to turn out very poor a elling be expected to kno education e and difficult business? any more ted to ion. Mr Stellings faculties rained to boring in a strait line, and y to spare. But among toms contemporaries ruction to find t after many days, tom tulliver. Education entirely a matter of luck - usually of ill-luck - in tant days. tate of mind in y compared of old-fasulliver, or for t men, u pic system, and e of tage, o give tter star in life t necessarily take to tence of ter urn of linen, fork, and spoon. It ance brougo t young gentleman, at ty, closed ions by an imprudent marriage: ot fat for to be on tion of a grammar sc unvisited by commissioners o tages of a large and lofty building, togeter, toote indistinctness and inattention te of tless, ed; but all ripeness beneatage less esteemed in t.
tom tulliver, tisime s of more or less relevant kno deal of strictly relevant ignorance, so very unlucky. Mr Stelling ion t a groain y kindness in made o see tom looking e issues belonging to everyday duties; not quite competent to incompetent gentlemen must live, and private fortune, it is difficult to see eelly if to do ion or government. Besides it of toms mental Constitution t ies could not be nouris of knoelling o communicate. A boy born poions must suffer ty of al deficiency, just as if er tion sanctioned by tice of our venerable ancestors to give ional dulness of a boy ime t. And Mr Stelling a boy so stupid at signs and abstractions must be stupid at everyt reverend gentleman could aug ice of our venerable ancestors to apply t ingenious instrument to tigig in order to elicit non-existent facts: to begin ts ent, and to tigelling all boys y could learn o teac be tig be insisted on y, and a page of Virgil be ay, to encourage and stimulate a too languid inclination to Latin verse.
Neverttle during tudies and so apt, t Mr Stelling could obtain credit by y oms dulness. Gentlemen s and ambitious intentions do sometimes disappoint to carry t is, t s demand some otion besides an unusual desire for is t tal gentlemen are rat, ticulam aurae being obstructed from soaring by a too y appetite. Some reason or otelling deferred tion of many spirited projects - ing of , after turning te study ion, sat doo one of tom o so o make some s being cross-examined into betrayal t irely neutral in tter. scion of circumstances; and on contentedly enougion c intended as education at all. ood to be ion, ice of reading, ing and spelling, carried on by an elaborate appliance of unintelligible ideas and by muc to learn by rote.
Nevert in tom under training; per a boy in tract existing solely to illustrate taken education, but a boy made of flesions not entirely at tances.
t improvement in on to Mr Poulter, ter, om - a source of ual pleasure. Mr Poulter, to ruck terror into ts of tremulous in t from age, but from treme perversity of ton boys ain ill, ial erectness, rousers tigrapped, and on turday afternoons om, ionally spirited air, as of a superannuated cracted by episodes of ive muceresting to tom tories out of tom some disgust on learning t or and Ac possibly never ed. But ton ers reminiscences of ter, it appeared, talavera, and ributed not a little to terror of infantry ernoons ed t ton rict privacy, lest jealousies seem for t fine felloer. ttended al after ers flesime. On less personal matters connected ant icent, only taking care not to give t of y to any loose notions concerning military ory. Any one o a kno t of silent pity to Mr Poulter: prating person rampled out of t go-off, as talk about tom did not escape irritating er occasionally, by y concerning otary matters ters personal experience.
`And General olfe, Mr Poulter? er? said tom, all tial ed on th Bony.
`Not at all! said Mr Poulter, contemptuously. `Not!... one of stern command, om and made in his own person.
`No, no! Mr Poulter inue, on coming to a pause in ter not talk to me about General olfe. die of s a poor ion, I consider. Any ots ud hakilled a fellow like General olfe.
`Mr Poulter, tom any allusion to the sword-exercise!
For a long t, and smiled patronisingly, as Jupiter may oo ambitious request. But one afternoon er ty minutes longer t t - just for tom to look at.
`And t tles, Mr Poulter? said tom, . ` ever cut a Frenchmans head off?
`hree heads.
`But you besides? said tom. `I s best, because you could s em first and spear em after. Bang! Ps-s-s-s! tom gave te pantomime to indicate t of pulling trigger and ting the spear.
`A to close figer, involuntarily falling in oms ent tom leaped back y.
`O but, Mr Poulter, if youre going to do tom, a little conscious t stood me go and call Po see you, you know.
`! ter contemptuously. `s the use of his looking on?
`O but deal about figom, `and o figtle-axes.
`Let from er, cougtle preliminary play to .
tom ran in to Pernoons t tunes for ool, e cornice, and , impromptu syllables to a tune of Arnes; w his fancy.
`Come, Pom, bursting in. `Dont stay roaring la la ter do he carriage-house!
terruption - toms tones coming across tes to ion of Poulter ter. And tom, in to say to prevent Mr Poulter from t, ed on tion to fetc Ped to ion om under tress of his personal pride.
Purning red, passion,
`Get a! Dont come bello me - youre not fit to speak to anyt a cart horse!
It t time P tom ood so well.
`Im fit to speak to sometter ted imp! said tom, ligely at P you - because youre no better t Im an mans son, and your fathers a rogue - everybody says so!
tom flung out of ter rangely o slam doors elling, o be by ty lines of Virgil. In fact, t lady did presently descend from t cessation of Pting in a terly.
`s tter, akem? noise about? he door?
Pily dried ulliver o go out h him.
`And rouble about? said Mrs Stelling.
P e of t so oanding very mucs an invitation to s of elling a loving, tender-ed ted er your less, represent a great social po it is not poher power could win Philip from his personal reserve.
o ion, `My tooterical again.
t once, and Pion - it ion to enable o excuse o accept eau-de-cologne, and to refuse creosote in consequence, but t was easy.
Meanime sent a poisoned arroo P, urned to ter eye, ing tions of but inappreciative rats. But Mr Poulter o say, ators could ook no notice of toms return, being too entirely absorbed in t and t - tom, not a slig Mr Poulters fixed eye and ient for someto cut besides t a distance as possible. It until Mr Poulter paused and ion from tom felt t to be repeated.
`Mr Poulter, said tom, wtle wo keep.
`No, no, young gentleman, said Mr Poulter, s do yourself some misc.
`No, Im sure I - Im sure Id take care and not myself. I s take it out of t I could ground arms , and all t.
`No, no, it do, I tell you, it do, said Mr Poulter, preparing to depart. ` ud Mr Stelling say to me?
`O, I say, do, Mr Poulter! Id give you my five-s me keep tom, reac ttractively large round of silver. ted t as well as if he had been a philosopher.
`ell, said Mr Poulter, ill deeper gravity, `you must keep it out of sight, you know.
`O yes, Ill keep it under tom, eagerly, `or else at ttom of my large box.
`And let me see, no of t ing yourself.
t process er felt t ed iousness and said, `ell, noer tulliver, if I take t is to make sure as youll do no mische sword.
`O no, indeed, Mr Poulter, said tom delig, miger age.
`But if Mr Stelling catc in, said Mr
Poulter, pocketing t.
`O airs study on Saturday afternoons, said tom, disinclined to a little stratagem in a riump encounter Mr or Mrs Stelling - to er some consideration, in t be nig t onis round er, and make t o be a soldier. t Maggie o see tom before s to a boarding-sch Lucy.
If you teen be an exceptionally o a civil calling, requiring you to look bland rat never, since you o a martial attitude and fro is doubtful pacific people at o fancy tic spectacles, mig of a `public.