Could he translate "Balbus hopped over a wall" without the dictionary?
Ah! He thought sometimes he would try, just to prove how slanderous Crossfield's insinuation had been.

The result of all these cogitations was that Bloomfield began to discover he was not quite such an "all-round" man as his friends had told him.

And that being so, had not he better qualify himself like an honest man for his post?
He did not like to confide the idea to his friends for fear of their laughter, but for a week or two at least he actually read rather hard on the sly.

The worst of it was, that till the examinations next term there could be nothing to show for it.

For the Sixth did not change their places every day as the lower forms did.