for similar reasons.
The ceremony being over, the new boys were trooped up to the head master's library, and there told off to their respective forms with a few words of warning and encouragement.

It surprised me that, in spite of my scholastic honours, I was entered in the same form as Brown.

But on the whole I was more pleased than disappointed, for I loved my old comrade dearly, and after all, if he _was_ placed above his merits, it wasn't his fault.
"It's a pity you aren't a day boy," said he, as he walked across afterwards; "we could have larks together." "It's a pity you aren't in the school," said I.
"Oh, our chaps say it's rather stale to be in the school.

I don't see why your fellows should be looked down on, but they are." "Pooh! you should hear our chaps talk about the day boys.

Do you know, Dicky, I'm president of a club, a Philosophical Club; and day boys aren't eligible.