With him came a letter from the head master, who wrote that he did not wish to make any scandal, and therefore had not expelled the boy.

Still, he would be obliged if his mother would refrain from sending him back, as he did not consider him a suitable member of a public school.

He suggested, in the lad's own interest, that it might be wise to place him in some establishment where a speciality was made of the training of unruly youths.

He added that he wrote this with the more regret since Anthony's father and grandfather had been scholars at -- -- in their day, and her son possessed no mean intellectual abilities.

This would be shown by the fact that he was at the head of his class, and might doubtless under other circumstances have risen to a high place in the sixth form.
Then followed the details of his misdoings, of which one need only be mentioned.