And you shall be taught what you have never yet heard of; and be put to school, and have bats and balls for the holidays, and be made a man of.

But you must never say you have been a shepherd boy, and watched on the hills at night, for shepherd boys are not liked in good company.
'Trust me, my Lord Duke.' 'The very moment you forget yourself, and speak of your shepherd days--this year, next year, in school, out of school, or riding in your carriage twenty years hence--at that moment my help will be withdrawn, and smash down you come to shepherding forthwith.

You have parents, I think you say ?' 'A widowed mother only, my Lord Duke.' 'I'll provide for her, and make a comfortable woman of her, until you speak of--what ?' 'Of my shepherd days, and what I saw here.' 'Good.

If you do speak of it ?' 'Smash down she comes to widowing forthwith!' 'That's well--very well.

But it's not enough.