CHAPTER ONE.
TWICE ACCEPTED.
The reader is requested kindly to glance through the following batch of letters, which, oddly enough, are all dated September 9th, 18---: Number 1 .-- William Grover, M.A., Grandcourt School, to Mark Railsford, M.A., Lucerne.
"Grandcourt, _September_ 9th.
"Dear Railsford,--I suppose this will catch you at Lucerne, on your way back to England.

I was sorry to hear you had been seedy before you left London.

Your trip is sure to have done you good, and if you only fell in with pleasant people I expect you will have enjoyed yourself considerably.

What are you going to do when you get home--still follow the profession of a gentleman at large, or what?
Term opened here again last week, and the Sixth came back to-day.

I'm getting more reconciled to the place by this time; indeed, there is no work I like better than teaching, and if I was as certain it was as good for the boys as it is congenial to me I should be perfectly contented.