Does he study hard ?" "Study! He is the most careless whelp that ever--" "But if I were to give him an inducement to study ?" "Such as ?" asked Cathro, who could at times be as inquisitive as the doctor.
"We need not go into that.

But suppose it appealed to him ?" Cathro considered.

"To be candid," he said, "I don't think he could study, in the big meaning of the word.

I daresay I'm wrong, but I have a feeling that whatever knowledge that boy acquires he will dig out of himself.

There is something inside him, or so I think at times, that is his master, and rebels against book-learning.