a regular school if he could afford to do better but if any one wanted his boy to get superior instruction and training where he would be the companion of his master and that master a first rate fellow i know his man i wouldn t mention the chance to every body because i don t think every body would succeed in getting it if he were to try but i mention it to you � between ourselves the fixed glance with which mr v� l i tl bis end b face became quite the mill on ay now let s hear he said himself m his chair with the complacency of a person who is thought worthy of important communications he s an oxford man said mr shutting his mouth close and looking at mr to observe the effect of this information what i a parson said mr rather doubtfully yes � and an m a the bishop i understand thinks very highly of him why it was the bishop who got him his present ah said mr to whom one thing was as wonderful as another concerning these phenomena but what can he want wi tom then why the fact is he s fond of teaching and wishes to keep up his studies and a clergyman has but little opportunity for that in his duties he s willing to take one or two boys as pupils to fill up his time the boys would be quite of the family � the finest thing in the world for them � under s eye continually but do you think they d give tho poor lad twice o said mrs who was now in her place again he s such a boy for as never was an a growing boy like that � it s dreadful to think o their him and what money ud he want said mr whose instinct told him that the services of this admirable m a would bear a high price why i know of a clergyman who asks a hundred and fifty with his youngest pupils and he s not to be mentioned with the man i speak of i know on good authority that one of the chief people at oxford said might get the highest honors if he chose but he didn t care about university honors he s a quiet man � not noisy ml a deal better � a deal better said mr but a hundred and fifty s an uncommon price i never thought o so much as that a good education let me tell you � a good education is cheap at the money but is moderate in his terms � he s not a grasping man i ve no doubt he d take your boy at a hundred and that s what you wouldn t get many other to do i ll write to him about it if you like mr rubbed his knees and looked at the carpet in a meditative manner but he s a bachelor observed mrs in the interval an no opinion o there was my brother as ia dead an gone bad a et � xi thb mill ok the took half the feathers oat o the best bed an packed em up an sent em away an it s unknown the linen she made away with � her name was it ud break my heart to send tom where there s a housekeeper an i hope you won t think of it mr you may set your mind at rest on that score mrs mr for is married to as nice a little woman as any man need wish i r a wife there isn t a kinder little soul in the world i know her family well she has very much your complexion � light curly hair she comes of a good family and it s not every offer that would have been acceptable in that quarter but s not an every day man rather a fellow as to the people he chooses to be connected with but i think he would have no objection to take your son � i think he would not on my representation i don t know what he could have against the lad said mrs with a slight touch of indignation � a fresh lad as any body need wish to see but there s one thing i m on said mr turning his head on one side and looking at mr after a long perusal of the carpet wouldn t a parson be almost too high to bring up a lad to be a man o business my notion o the was as they d got a sort o learning as lay mostly out o sight and that isn t what i want for tom i want him to know figures and write like print and see into things quick and know what folks mean and how to wrap things up in words as aren t it s an uncommon fine thing that is concluded mr shaking his head when you can let a man know what you think of him without paying for it oh my dear said mr you re quite under a mistake about the clergy all the best are of the clergy the who are not of the clergy are a very low set of men generally ay that is at the interposed mr to be sure � men who have failed in other trades most likely now a clergyman is a gentleman by profession and education and besides that he has the knowledge that will ground a boy and prepare him for entering on any career with credit there may be some who are mere but you may depend upon it is not one of them � a man that s wide awake let me tell you drop him a hint and that s enough you talk of figures 