"But what can he want wi' Tom, then ?" "Why, the fact is, he's fond of teaching, and wishes to keep up his studies, and a clergyman has but little opportunity for that in his parochial duties.

He's willing to take one or two boys as pupils to fill up his time profitably.

The boys would be quite of the family,--the finest thing in the world for them; under Stelling's eye continually." "But do you think they'd give the poor lad twice o' pudding ?" said Mrs.Tulliver, who was now in her place again.

"He's such a boy for pudding as never was; an' a growing boy like that,--it's dreadful to think o' their stintin' him." "And what money 'ud he want ?" said Mr.Tulliver, whose instinct told him that the services of this admirable M.A.would bear a high price.
"Why, I know of a clergyman who asks a hundred and fifty with his youngest pupils, and he's not to be mentioned with Stelling, the man I speak of.

I know, on good authority, that one of the chief people at Oxford said, Stelling might get the highest honors if he chose.