I wouldn't be a charity student, anyway, if I never knew anything.

Besides that, what's the use of education to chaps like him.
Better stay as he was born.

I don't believe in educating the masses, do you ?' Of himself Tom could never have thought of all this, but he had heard it from his mother, who frequently used the expression 'not to elevate the masses,' forgetting that she was once herself a part of the mass which she would now keep down.
Just what Fred said in reply Harold did not hear.

There was a ringing in his ears, and he felt as if every drop of blood in his body was rushing to his head as he sat down, dizzy and bewildered, and smarting cruelly under the wound he had received this time.

He had more than once been taunted with his poverty and dependence upon Mr.Tracy, but the taunts had never hurt him so before, and he could have cried out in his pain as he thought of Tom's words, and knew that in himself there was the making of a far nobler manhood than Tom Tracy would ever know.
Was poverty, which one could not help, so terrible a disgrace, an insuperable barrier to elevation, and was it mean and small in him to accept his education from a man on whom he had no claim?
Possibly; and if so, the state of things should not continue.