[The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch CHAPTER FIVE 5/9
Do this, and you'll turn out a far better man than the man who is talking to you. Whenever you are in trouble come to me, I shall always be glad to see you.
I promised you, you know, I would ask for you occasionally, didn't I? And now let's see what you've got in your head." And then followed a brief examination, conducted in a way which put Charlie quite at his ease, and so enabled him to acquit himself with a fair amount of credit and win from his master a commendation, which he prized not a little, for it was that his father's efforts had not been wasted on him. "You will be put in the second-form," said the doctor, "and if you work hard, I see no reason why you should not get up into the third next midsummer.
Now, good-bye.
I hope you won't find the head master of Randlebury is as `stiff and stuck-up a fellow' as you dreaded, and I trust I shall find you as honest and brave a fellow as I hoped you would turn out the first time I saw you.
Good-bye." Charlie rose to leave with overflowing heart.
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