[Lord Ormont and his Aminta by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookLord Ormont and his Aminta CHAPTER V 6/22
"That is true.
I do not propose to settle as a schoolmaster in England." "Where ?" "On the Continent." "Would not America be better ?" "It would not so well suit the purpose in view for us." "There are others besides ?" "Besides Emile, there is a German and an Italian and a Swiss." "It is a Company ?" "A Company of schoolmasters! Companies of all kinds are forming. Colleges are Companies.
And they have their collegians.
Our aim is at pupils; we have no ambition for any title higher than School and Schoolmaster; it is not a Company." So, like Nature parading her skeleton to youthful adorers of her face, he insisted on reducing to hideous material wreck the fair illusion, which had once arrayed him in alluring promise. She explained; "I said, America.
You would be among Protestants in America." "Catholics and Protestants are both welcome to us, according to our scheme.
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