Harry Clavering Chooses His Profession Harry Clavering might not be an usher, but, nevertheless, he was home for the holidays.

And who can say where the usher ends and the school-master begins?
He, perhaps, may properly be called an usher, who is hired by a private schoolmaster to assist himself in his private occupation, whereas Harry Clavering had been selected by a public body out of a hundred candidates, with much real or pretended reference to certificates of qualification.

He was certainly not an usher, as he was paid three hundred a year for his work--which is quite beyond the mark of ushers.

So much was certain; but yet the word stuck in his throat and made him uncomfortable.

He did not like to reflect that he was home for the holidays.
But he had determined that he would never come home for the holidays again.