a husband though fm thb mill on thb sorry for her and mrs agreed that was pitiable that evening tom observed to oh my aunt s beginning to come again fm glad tm going to school catch it all now was already so full of sorrow at the thought of tom s going away from her that this exultation of his � seemed very unkind and she cried herself to sleep that night mr s prompt on him further in finding the convenient person who was desirous of five hundred pounds on bond it must be no of s he said to himself and yet at the end of a fortnight it turned out to the contrary not because mr s will was feeble but because external fact was stronger s was the only convenient person to be found mr had a destiny as well as and in this case he might plead like that his deed was on him rather than committed by him book second school time chapter tom s tom s sufferings during the first quarter he was at king s under the distinguished care of the rev walter were rather severe at academy life had not presented itself to him as a difficult problem there were plenty of fellows to play with and tom being good at active games � fighting especially � had that among them which appeared to him inseparable from the personality of tom mr himself familiarly known as old from his habit of wearing spectacles no awe and if it was the property of old like to write like and surround their wit to si ell without and to my name is without tom for his part was ad he was not in danger of mean accomplishments he was not going to be a � he but a substantial man like his father who used to go hunting when be was younger and rode a capital black mare � as pretty a bit of as ever you saw tom had heard what her points were a hundred times meant to go hunting too and to be generally respected when people were grown up he considered inquired about their writing und bi when he was a man he should be master of every and do just as he liked it had been very difficult for him to himself to the idea that his school time was to be prolonged and that he was not to be brought up to his business which he had always thought pleasant tor it was nothing but riding giving orders and to market and he thought that a clergyman would give him great many scripture lessons and probably make him learn the gospel and l on a sunday as well as the collect but in the absence of specific information it was thb mill on thb for him to imagine that school and a be something entirely different from the academy of mr so not to be at a deficiency in case of his finding genial companions he had taken care to carry with him a small box of caps not that there was any thing particular to be done with them but they would serve to impress strange boys with a sense of his familiarity with thus poor tom though he saw very clearly through s illusions was not without illusions of his own which were to be cruelly dissipated by his enlarged experience at king s he had not been there a fortnight before it w as evident to him that life complicated not only with the latin grammar but with a new standard of english was a very difficult business made all the more obscure by a thick mist of tom as you have observed was never an exception among boys for ease of address but the difficulty of a in reply to mr or mrs was so great that he even dreaded to be asked at table whether he would have more as to the caps he had almost resolved in the bitterness of his heart that he would throw them into a neighboring pond for not only was he the solitary pupil but he began even to have a certain about guns and a general sense that his theory of life was for mr thought nothing of guns or horses either apparently and yet it was impossible for tom to despise mr as he had despised old if there was any thing that was not thoroughly genuine about mr it lay quite beyond tom s power to detect it it is only by a wide comparison of facts that the wisest fuu grown man can distinguish well rolled barrels from more thunder mr was a well sized broad man not yet thirty with hair standing erect and large gray eyes which were always very wide open he had a bass voice and an air of defiant self confidence to he had entered on his career with great vigor and intended to make a considerable impression on his fellow men the rev walter was not a man who would remain among the inferior clergy all his life he had a true british determination to push his way in the world as a in the first place for there were capital of grammar schools to be had and mr meant to have me of them but as a preacher also for he meant always to pr in a striking manner so as to have his congregation swelled admirers from neighboring and to produce a great sensation whenever he took occasional duty for a brother mill on ths of minor gifts the style of preaching he had chosen was the which was held little short of the in rural like � ing s some passages of and which he knew by heart were really very effective when rolled out in mr s deepest tones but as comparatively feeble appeals of his own were delivered in the 