Date: 1874
The reason, as you know, why my uncle quarrelled with me was that I Avould not choose either of what he called the three gentlemanly pro fessions.  I would not go into the Church because I did not like cramming school chfldren with indigestible cake, and yet more indigestible facts, and performing the part of a machine for the Squire's daugh ters to learn to flirt on.  I would not be a barrister, because I had no taste for wading through a ploughed field.