CHAPTER VII.
GEORGE.
It appeared that Honoria and Taffy were to do lessons together, and Mr.Raymond was to teach them.

This had been the meaning of his visit to Tredinnis House.

They began the very next day in the library at Tredinnis--a deserted room carpeted with badgers' skins, and lined with undusted books--works on farriery, veterinary surgery, and sporting subjects, long rows of the _Annual Register_, the _Arminian Magazine_.
Taffy began by counting the badgers' skins.

There were eighteen, and the moths had got into them, so that the draught under the door puffed little drifts of hair over the polished boards.

Then he settled down to the first Latin declension--_Musa_, a muse; vocative, _Musa_, O muse!; genitive, Musae, of a muse.