toms `First half

        tOM tULLIVERS sufferings during t quarter    Kings Lorton uinguiser Stelling    Mr Jacobs Academy, life    preseself to    problem: ty of felloo play om being good at all active games, fig prece among to y of tom tulliver; Mr Jacobs    of acles, imposed no painful a y of snuffy old es like o e like copperplate and surround tures o spell    foret, and to spout `My name is Norval    bungling, tom for     in danger of ts.    going to be a snuffy scer -    a substantial man, like o go ing ty a bit of om    s o go ing too, and to be generally respected.    ting and spelling:    as     for o recile o t ime o be prolonged, and t    to be brougo    extremely pleasant, for it    riding about, giving orders, and going to market; and    t a clergyman ure lessons, and probably make le on a Sunday as . But in tion, it    scer irely different from t to be at a deficy, in case of aken care to carry    t ticular to be doo impress strange boys y om, t    illusions of o be cruelly dissipated by    Kings Lorton.    been tnig    to    life, plicated not only in grammar but andard of Englision,    business, made all t of basom, as you ion among boys for ease of address; but ty of enunciating a monosyllable in reply to Mr or Mrs Stelling , t o be asked at table    resolved, in tterness of    t o a neig only    o aiicism about guns, and a general se elling t notly; a om to despise Mr Stelling as     t Mr Stelling, it lay quite beyond toms poo detect it: it is only by a s t t full-groinguishunder.

        Mr Stelling    yet ty, andi, and large lig self-fidening to brazenness. ered on    vigour, and inteo make a siderable impression oelling    a man isermination to puser, in t place: for tal masterso be elli to    as a preac alo preacriking manner, so as to ion s sensation y for a brots. tyle of preacemporaneous, on. Some passages of Massillon and Bourdaloue, ive ellings deepest tones, but as paratively feeble appeals of en t quite as striking by ellings doe icular sge of evangelicalism, for t elling t to elling o rise in o rise by merit, clearly, si beyond ionso a great la bee Lord tions naturally gets a little into debt at starting: it is not to be expected t yle of a man e all impson advaoune did not suffice for ture togetock of    of a superior flo follorous manner, eit t be procured by some ot telling must go    t alternative ination of ts of success, elli    equal to anyted by s a Greek play, and i several ed ttle more tentions to Mrs Stelling; but old t fine o do some day, and s great fiden ood everyt sort.

        But te step to future success    on tom tulliver during t iation ing anot migellings favour, if it ood t young tulliver,    time. It    om about in grammar    tion of some sternness. Not t Mr Stellirary: om at table, and corrected ment in t playful manner: but poor tom y, for o jokes at all like Mr Stellings, and for t time in    elling said, as t beef ulliver! in for it? - tom, to s a pun o a state of embarrassed alarm t made everyto    t    o do in: of course    beef, - ical joking es, from    erious , made ions and survive ts,    sooner aken tter of course. But tio may procure for ary pupil to a clergyman: one is, t of tlemans undivided ; tlemans undivided attention. It ter privilege for iatory mont Kings Lorton.

        t respectable miller and maltster    tom beate of great mental satisfa.    it    a tutor for tom. Mr Stellings eyes er-of-fact    sloullivers o be sure, to be sure, `You    your son to be a man ulliver    sellor ylde,    sessions, Mr tulliver t telling    fello unlike ylde, in fact - ig coat. Mr tulliver    by any means an exception in mistaking brazenness for s laymen t Stelling s ulliver several stories about `So t, ed for tom.    t-rate man ed ion, and knely om must learn in order to bee a matculliver    knoion on t is o laug ructed persons te as    at all wiser.

        As for Mrs tulliver, finding t Mrs Stellings vieo t recurrence of irely cided    Mrs Stelling, ticipating , o tal cer of t teo    leaving tom e of e sensible and mottily as could be.

        `t be very ulliver, `for everyt ered silk s a pretty penny. Sister Pullet    one like it.

        `Aulliver, ` some ine besides tom ull be anoto    mucrouble eit: eacural to s ulliver, turning ative tig on the flank.

        Per eacurally to Mr Stelling t    about it    uniformity of metances ood to be ue teacure. Mr Broderips amiable beaver, as t curalist tells us, busied ly in strug a dam, in a room up tairs in London, as if ion in a stream or lake in Upper ada. It ion to build: ter or of possible progeny    for able. itinct Mr Stellio    ural metilling ton Grammar and Euclid into tom tulliver. tru: all otioerers. Fixed on t observe ted people ying smile: all t sort of t it ion Mr Stelling    biassed, as some tutors ent of o    Euclid, no opinion could iality. Mr Stelling ray by entellectual: on t belief t everyt religion    totle a great auty, and deaneries and prebends useful institutions, and Great Britain tial bulestantism, and fait support to afflicted minds: el keeper believes in ty of t gives to artistic visitors. And in telling believed in ion:    t    tullivers boy. Of course,    manner, Mr Stelling     rest by an assura ood ed; for    possible t about tter? Mr Stellings duty o teac ed ime in t of anything abnormal.

        doom as a tupid lad; for t particular desions into ract as tioerminations could by no mea suc to enable nise a cive or dative. truck Mr Stelling as sometural stupidity: ed obstinacy, or at any rate, indifference, aured tom severely on    of tion. `You feel no i in elling rue. tom y in dising a pointer from a setter, in, and ive po at all defit. I fancy te as strong as telling; for tom could prediumber    beo tre of a given ripple, o a fra ick it ake to reac perfect squares on e    any measurement. But Mr Stelling took no note of t toms faculties failed ras o on Grammar, and t ate b on idiocy o tration t triangles must be equal - t promptitude aainty t t telling cluded t toms brain being peculiarly impervious to etymology and demonstrations,    implements: it ap try stituted t culture of t for tion of any subsequent crop. I say not Mr Stellings to o me as good as any ot turned out as unfortably for tom tulliver as if o remedy a gastric . It is astonis a differe os by capellectual stoma of try as plougo settle not t is open to some one else to follo auties and call t of e irrelevant. It less an ingenious idea to call t, but it    useful beast. O Aristotle! if you age of being `t modern instead of test a,    apelligeion t intelligence so rarely sself in speec metap    by saying it is something else?

        tom tulliver being abundant in no form of speec use aapo declare o ture of Latin:    an instrument of torture; and it    until    on some    us, t o call it a `bore and `beastly stuff. At present, iion to t in desions and jugations, tom ate of as blank unimaginativeness ing tendency of    s trunk of an asree in order to cure lameness in cattle. It is doubtless almost incredible to instructed minds of t day t a boy of t belonging strictly to `tood to al darkness, sinct idea o be su on t so it om. It o    ted a people ed till loo make and , ion irely latent. So far as tom ance    Mr Jacobs Academy, rictly correct, but it    no fart t testament. And Mr Stelling    to enfeeble and emasculate o reduce tonic effect of etymology by mixing it teriraneous information suco girls.

        Yet, strao say, ureatment tom became more like a girl to found itself very fortable in tioned rig no    bruises and    oo clear-sig to be a Mr Stellings standard of te different, ainly somet of t, and t brougact , om tulliver, appeared uncoutupid:    to t into an uneasy dition ion, and gave ibility.    to say obstinate, disposition, but te-like rebellion and recklessness iies predominated, and if it o    o s ellings approbation, by standing on one leg for an inve lengtime or rapping ely against tary a of t sort, ainly ried it. But no - tom    ten tanding, or strengt given to . It did occur to     some , but as t, y and irregularity of introdug aempore passage on a topic of petition for . But one day ion, and Mr Stelling, vi t be carelessness, si transded tupidity, ured ing out t if o seize t golden opportunity of learning supines, ret it ermio try    evening, after s and `little sister (o pray fgie o keep Gods as, o make me alin. tle to sider    Euclid - o see    meant, or ate    at last elling say I s do Euclid any more. Amen.

        t t    t mistake t day, enced o persevere in to ralised any scepticism t migellings tinued demand for Euclid. But    absence of all    into t seemed clear t toms despair u tense did not stitute a nodus erference, and siies,    in tudy, preparing    to get dim over ted g and    ion of superiority. And to obey t sign ure,    knife and . tom, as I said,    t epoc al development, o feel elling sidered som a service by setting o ctle c e a pretty employment for tom to take little Laura out in t umn day - it on Parsonage le c being an aplis present, ened round , by le dog, during tes in    as t part carrying t of Mrs Stellings o orders. If any one siders toom, I beg o sider t tues    inpatible. e trives under all ages to dress extremely o yle of coiffure    at elegand pleteness of appoio    o expect of    s as a nurse elling ker:     ainly not t tullivers gait, to carry a    y of exercise in long    elling    er. Among telling inteo be more fortuirely given up t of    ttle soul as ever breato Mr Riley, ellings bllets and smiling demeanour t rengt kno ic differences mig be entirely Mr Stellings fault.

        If tom ion, aile c oo kind-ed a lad for t - too muc turns to true manliness, and to proteg pity for ted Mrs Stelling, and tracted a lasting dislike to pale bllets and broad plaits as directly associated iness of manner and a frequent refereo oty. But    tle Laura, and liking to amuse er purpose - t elling for teaco play    of playfelloo doat on ing acts of fetfulness; t ed it as a great favour on    to let Maggie trot by his side on his pleasure excursions.

        And before tually came. Mrs Stelling ation for ttle girl to e and stay ulliver drove over to Kings Lorton late in October, Maggie came too,    saking a great journey and beginning to see t ullivers first visit to see tom, for t learn not to too mue.

        `ell, my lad, o tom, o annouo o kiss tom freely, `you look rarely! Sch you.--

        tom wisher ill.

        `I dont tom. `I    to let me do Euclid - it brings on toothink.

        (tooto wom .)

        `Euclid, my lad - ? said Mr tulliver.

        `O I dont knos definitions and axioms and triangles and ts a book Ive got to learn in - t.

        `Go, go! said Mr tulliver, reprovingly, `you mustnt say so. You must learells you.    its rigo learn.

        `Ill om, said Maggie, tle air of patronising solation. `Im e to stay ever so long, if Mrs Stelling asks me. Ive broug I, father?

        `You tle tom, in sucs at t, t e eo see you doing one of my lessons! in too! Girls never learn sucoo silly.

        `I knoin is very ly. `Latins a language. tin ionary. t.

        `No om, secretly astonis "bonus" means "good," as it happens - bonus, bona, bonum.

        `ell, ts no reason ;gift,"    said Maggie, stoutly. `It may mean several t every    means t, as uff pocket-handkerchiefs are made of.

        `ell done, little un, said Mr tulliver, laugom felt rated    t t so stay    ual iion of his books.

        Mrs Stelling, in ation, did not mention a loime tay, but Mr Stelling,    s stay a f Mr Stelling e proud to leave tle y of so appreciating strangers. So it    s be fetcill tnight.

        `Noo tudy, Maggie, said tom, as t do you soss your inued; for tion and ion to be tossing it out of    makes you look as if you were crazy.

        `O, I t , said Maggie impatiently. `Dont tease me, tom. O w books! sudy. `o !

        ` read one of em, said tom, triumply. `tin.

        `No, t, said Maggie. `I    read tory of the Roman Empire.

        `ell,    mean? You dont knoom, wagging his head.

        `But I could soon find out, said Maggie, sfully.

        `hy, how?

        `I s it .

        `Youd better not, Miss Maggie, said tom, seeing ellis nobody touc leave, and I sc, if you take it out.

        `O very    me see all your books, turning to toms neck, and rub h her small round nose.

        tom, in t at o dispute    and began to jump able. Aill Maggies    like an animated mop. But tions round table became more and more irregular in till at last reacellings reading-stand, t it ts o t udy oried o t tom stood dizzy and ag for a fees, dreading telling.

        `O, I say, Maggie, said tom at last, lifting up tand, ` keep quiet elling ll make us cry peccavi.

        `s t? said Maggie.

        `O its tin food scolding, said tom, not    some pride in his knowledge.

        `Is she a cross woman? said Maggie.

        `I believe you! said tom, iod.

        `I t Gleggs a great deal crosser ther does.

        `ell, youll be a om, `so you    talk.

        `But I soss.

        `O, I dare say, and a nasty ceited te you.

        `But you oug to e me, tom: itll be very wicked of you, for I ser.

        `Yes, but if youre a nasty disagreeable te you.

        `O but, tom, you ! I s be disagreeable. I so you - and I so everybody. You    e me really, om?

        `O bots time for me to learn my lessons. See    Ive got to do, said tom, drao presently being quite beion. It was unavoidable - s fess end s fond of ion.

        `Its nonsense! suff - nobody o make it out.

        `Aom, dra    so clever as you t you were.

        `O, said Maggie, pouting, `I dare say I could make it out, if Id learned w goes before, as you have.

        `But ts    couldnt, Miss isdom, said tom. `For its all t goes before: for t to say ion 3 is and    get along    go on in Grammar. See .

        Maggie found tin Grammar quite sooter ical mortification; for sed i Latin at sligly made up o skip tax, - terious sentences s, - like strange s leaves of unknos, brougo ion, and ing because tongue of to interpret. It eresting - tin Grammar t tom    iing. t fragmentary examples    unis in; but tunate gentleman ed because ion afforded    deal of pleasant jecture, and se lost in trable by no star, ,

        `Nohe Grammar!

        `O tom, its sucty book! s of to give it s muctier tionary. I could learn Latin very soon. I dont ts at all hard.

        `O I knoom, `youve been reading t t.

        tom seized t ermined and business-like air as muco say t o learn uro to amuse    titles.

        Presently tom called to and at t end of table, s when he hears me.

        Maggie obeyed and took the open book.

        `om?

        `O, I begin at `Appellativa arborum, because I say all ain his week.

        tom sailed along pretty et er, in speculating as to    at Suiam volucrum.

        `Dont tell me, Maggie; Suiam volucrum... Suiam volucrum... ut ostrea, cetus...

        `No, said Maggie, opening h and shaking her head.

        `Suiam volucrum, said tom, very slo o e sooner,    ted for.

        `C, e, u, said Maggie, getting impatient.

        `O, I knoom. `Ceu passer, om took s    on his book-cover... `ferarum...

        `O dear, O dear tom, said Maggie, `ime you are! Ut...

        `Ut, ostrea...

        `No, no, said Maggie, `ut, tigris...

        `O yes, noom, `it igris, vulpes, Id fotten: ut tigris, vulpes, et piscium.

        itammering aition, tom got t few lines.

        `No is    learnt for to-morrow. Give me e.

        After some ing of    on table, tom returhe book.

        `Mascula nomina in a, he began.

        `No, tom, said Maggie, `t doesnt e . Its Nomen non creskeivo...

        `Creskeivo, exclaimed tom, om ted passage for erdays lesson, and a youleman does not require an intimate or extensive acquaintan before iable absurdity of a false quantity. `Creskeivo!    a little silly you are, Maggie!

        `ell, you    laugom, for you didnt remember it at all. Im sure its spelt so. o know?

        `Pold you girls couldnt learn Latin. Its Nomen non cress genitivo.

        `Very ing. `I    say t as    mind your stops. For you ougo stop t a semi as you do at a a, and you make t stops o be no stop at all.

        `O    cter. Let me go on.

        tly fetco spend t of ted elling, om    y. But sellings alluding to a little girl of he gypsies.

        ` a very odd little girl t must be! said Mrs Stelling, meaning to be playful, but a playful turned on y    at all to Maggies taste. Selling, after all, did not t to bed in rats. Mrs Stelling, s, looked at     raight behind.

        to tom. So be in tudy o tin Grammar. tronomer    selling if all astronomers ed icular astronomer. But, forestalling his answer, she said,

        `I suppose its all astronomers: because you knoo talk and    tars.

        Mr Stelling liked tle immensely, and t terms. Sold tom so go to sr Stelling, as    to it again, and s A B C meant: the lines.

        `Im sure you couldnt do it, noom. `And Ill just ask Mr Stelling if you could.

        `I dont mind, said ttle ceited minx. `Ill ask him myself.

        `Mr Stelling, s same evening, oms lessons, if you o teacead of him?

        `No; you couldnt, said tom, indignantly. `Girls t do Euclid:    they, sir?

        `ttle of everytelling. `t deal of superficial cleverness: but t go far into anytheyre quid shallow.

        tom, delig, telegrapriump Maggie beellings cified: so be called `quick all tle life, and no appeared t ty. It er to be sloom.

        `om,    suco be quick. Youll never go far into anything, you know.

        And Maggie iny t s for a retort.

        But e lonely for tom, er and    tter since selling so many questions about tin, `I    buy it for a fartten nut, or o Latin - t tom ually e to a dim uanding of t t tunate as to knoin    learning it ton Grammar. t addition to orical acquirements during to aomised ory of the Jews.

        But to an end. om o see t yell before ternoons and t December snoo    suns    make    t of t y-oicks deep in a er of t o a distao limbo, if it ure of sticks to travel so far.

        But it    tin Grammar - t lig o t familiar tern of te and t ideas t it o criticise ty aension of matter. t in ts became dear to us before ension of our oy: ed and loved it as ed our oend our o furniture of our early    look if it    up to au: an improved taste in upery ss it; and is not triving after sometter aer in our surroundings, teristic t distinguise - or, to satisfy a scrupulous accuracy of definition, t distinguisise? But    striving migions    a trick of tities of our life s in memory. Ones delig t cistus or fucself o undulating turf, is airely unjustifiable prefereo a landscape-gardener, or to any of ted minds    does not rest on a demonstrable superiority of qualities. And tter reason for preferring t it stirs an early memory - t it is no y in my life speaking to me merely t sensibilities to form and colour, but te self into my joys when joys were vivid.
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