But at the cost of--how much?
two hundred pounds annually--for five years--he has acquired about five-and-twenty guineas' worth of classical leeterature--enough, I dare say, to enable him to quote Horace respectably through life, and what more do ye want from a young man of his expectations?
I think I should send him into the army, that's the best place for him--there's the least to do, and the handsomest clothes to wear.

Acce segnum!" says the little wag, daintily taking up the tail of his friend's coat.
"There's never any knowing whether you are in jest or in earnest, Binnie," the puzzled Colonel said.
"How should you know, when I don't know myself ?" answered the Scotchman.
"In earnest now, Tom Newcome, I think your boy is as fine a lad as I ever set eyes on.

He seems to have intelligence and good temper.

He carries his letter of recommendation in his countenance; and with the honesty--and the rupees, mind ye--which he inherits from his father, the deuce is in it if he can't make his way.

What time's the breakfast?
Eh, but it was a comfort this morning not to hear the holystoning on the deck.