"The great difficulty is to get him to assert himself." "I trust," said the doctor, after a pause, "there is no truth in the report that Bloomfield and the monitors of your house are trying to set up a counter authority to Riddell's." "It is true," said Mr Parrett; "and it is the secret of most of the bad order in the school.

But I am not sure, sir, whether it is a matter you would do well to notice.

It is one of the difficulties which Riddell has to live down, and which bring him out more than anything else.

He has made his mark already on the usurpers." "You are quite right," said the doctor.

"I would rather leave a difficulty like that to right itself.