Although his lagging only lasted for a year, he was persistently bullied and tormented, until he forgot what he had learned, instead of adding to it.

When the body is starved and ill- treated, the mind will not work.

The head master, Dr.Williamson, was disappointed in a boy of whom he had expected so much, and wrote unfavourable reports.

After enduring undeserved and disabling hardships for three years and a half, Froude was taken away from Westminster at the age of fifteen.
To escape from such a den of horrors was at first a relief.

But he soon found that his miseries were not over.