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Mr. Midshipman Easy

CHAPTER V
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You have learned more than you think for.
To-morrow we will begin again.

Now we'll put the cane by." Mr Bonnycastle rang the bell, and desired Master Johnny to be put to bed, in a room by himself, and not to give him any supper, as hunger would, the next morning, much facilitate his studies.

Pain and hunger alone will tame brutes, and the same remedy must be applied to conquer those passions in man which assimilate him with brutes.

Johnny was conducted to bed, although it was but six o'clock.

He was not only in pain, but his ideas were confused; and no wonder, after all his life having been humoured and indulged never punished until the day before.
After all the caresses of his mother and Sarah, which he never knew the value of--after stuffing himself all day long, and being tempted to eat till he turned away in satiety, to find himself without his mother, without Sarah, without supper covered with wheals, and, what was worse than all, without his own way.


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