I did not think that there had been so much in you, either of application or capacity; you have now learnt all that is necessary, if my friend Dr.B---'s opinion was sterling, as I have no doubt it was.

You are still a child, however, and must yet go to school, in order that you may be kept out of evil company.

Perhaps you may still contrive, now you have exhausted the barn, to pick up a grain or two in the barnyard.

You are still ignorant of figures, I believe, not that I would mention figures in the same day with Lilly's Grammar." These words were uttered in a place called -- -, in the north, or in the road to the north, to which, for some time past, our corps had been slowly advancing.

I was sent to the school of the place, which chanced to be a day school.