Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xvii I made no mention to my uncle of my having left Dennington. Possessed of my term's salary and a pound or two which I had saved from Dr Spraggs' gift, I returned to Seltham with ten pounds in my pocket and a sense of delightful independence in my mind. I had a notion of securing another post in some school when the holidays were at an end, and, meanwhile, mindful of what my uncle had said, determined that I would not remain idle till then. I was lucky. Within a week of my return to Seltham I secured a holiday engagement at the little seaside town of Britford, which, I mentioned before, was near Frattenbury. Some people had taken a house there for the summer vacation, and wanted a tutor for two boys aged nine and ten respectively. My duties were to teach them in the mornings and take them out for walks in the afternoons. For this I was offered two guineas a week and my lunch with the family. Of course I jumped at it. I took a cheap room a little distance inland from the town, where prices for visitors were not piled on. It was a comfortable room upstairs, and by screening off the bed and wash-stand with a curtain, I flattered myself that I turned it into a double apartment. Here I had my breakfast and bread and cheese supper, and here I commenced studying again in my spare time. I was supremely happy. Compared with what I had been doing, the work was very light, and the boys were jolly youngsters. As we did not begin studies till ten, and as my day's duty was over at five, I had plenty of time to myself; and though I intended doing so, 1 fear I did not spend so much of it in reading as I ought to have done. I felt a gentleman at large--my own master, with no one to say unto me "Do this!" or "Do that!" My Sundays were quite...
