the New Schoolfellow
It January day on back to sce in keeping iny. If carried in a parcel of sugar candy and a small Dutctle Laura, ted pleasure to enliven t o t out iny s of sugar candy, and, to give ter keenness to tion, ook out t off a crystal or t and damp odours of t ed tulliver, o see you again, said Mr Stelling, ily. `take off your o tudy till dinner. Youll find a brighere and a new companion.
tom felt in an uncomfortable flutter as ook off er and ot St Oggs, but urned been tom did not see any one e of mingled embarrassment and defiance as elling to tudy.
`o sulliver, said t gentleman on entering tudy, - `Master Po make acquaintance by yourselves. You already kno home.
tom looked confused and aom did not like to go up and put out prepared to say, ` a notice.
Mr Stelling urned aheir elders.
P once too proud and too timid to oom. , or rat, t tom o looking at , disliked looking at y to ting furtive glances at Po be draly first one object and ted o tom, and trying to overcome o making t advances.
tom began to look oftener and longer at P noticing t a disagreeable face - very old-looking, tom t: omist - even a mere p - y of P a congenital t of an accident in infancy; but you do not expect from tom any acquaintance inctions: to ion t ty of akems son ion to ty, of emp too a ted fear of eful felloo figailor in ter, and er by public-spirited boys solely on tisfactory moral qualities; so t tom a basis of fact to go upon. Still, no face could be more unlike t ugly tailors t tom t t truly pitiable. t e clear be able to play at anyt ly making one ter anot any trouble. e ed someto be going for ainly more agreeable to ured o stand looking out of tudy t against tude; sometom t o s ter not try eful tricks on h, and looked over Philips paper.
`s donkey ridges in tongue being completely loosed by surprise and admiration. `O my buttons!I o learn drao make dogs and donkeys!
`O you can do t learning, said Philip. `I never learned drawing.
`Never learned? said tom, in amazement. ` come rig to be very I daresay I could do dogs and o try more, ing t P falsely suppose t o `knock under, if oo frank about tion of s.
`O yes, said Ps very easy. Youve only to look t you do er t time,
`But you been taugom, beginning to P be ties, `I t youd been to school a long while,
`Yes, said Paugin and Greek and matics... and ing and suchings.
`O but, I say, you dont like Latin tom, lowering ially.
`Pretty care muc it, said Philip.
`A per got into tom, nodding o say, `t est: it alking until you came to t.
P some bitter complacency in tupidity of tive-looking boy; but made polite by reme sensitiveness as e, ion to laugly,
`Ive done learn t any more.
`t om, ment.
`No; but I daresay I can o help you if I can.
tom did not say `te absorbed in t t akems son did not seem so spiteful a fellow as miged.
`I say, ly, `do you love your father?
`Yes, said P you love yours?
`O yes... I only ed to knoom, ratable. y in adjusting titude of mind to o if P fact migowards clearing up y.
`S.
`No, said Po give all my time to othings now.
` Latin, and Euclid, and tom.
`Yes, said P off using ing om ion at the donkey.
`And you dont mind t? said tom, rong curiosity.
`No: I like to knoudy w I like by and by.
`I cant tin, said tom. `Its no good.
`Its part of tion of a gentleman, said Plemen learn things.
`, do you ter of tin? said tom, o resemble Sir John Crake.
` it en it.
`O, , tom, not ic intention, but isfaction at t as far as Latin o o remember it o learn ever so many lines of `Speaker Mr Stellings very particular - did you knoimes if you say quot;namquot; for quot;jamquot;... let you go a letter ell you.
`O I dont mind, said Po cory, and everyt to tten tragedies, or else ened to by everybody for my es, and a al superiority.)
` figom, ion. `Is tory? ts I like in tory of the Jews.
`O, tories of t sort about t times s a beautiful Poem - t ttle fello very a red- pine-tree and stuck it into thousand bulls.
`O om, Jumping aable and stamping first ell me all about tories? Because I s learn Greek, you kno trary migleman learn Greek?... ill Mr Stelling make me begin , do you think?
`No, I s - very likely not, said P you may read tories kno them in English.
`O but I dont like reading: Id sooner ell t only ting ones, you knoer Maggie is aling to tell me stories - but tupid tories alell a good many figories?
`O Yes, said Ps of tories. I can tell you about Ric illiam allace, and Robert Bruce and James Douglas - I Know no end.
`Youre older t you? said tom.
`een.
`Im only going in fourteen, said tom. `But I t Jacobs - ts bandy and climbing. And I us go fiso fis you? Its only standing, and sitting still, you know.
tom, in urn, not suppose t ance ing stories put ual figom tulliver. Po ness for active sports, and peevishly,
`I Cant bear fisting cer ching.
`A you say tell you, said tom, retc zeal for t. akems son, it be kept in due c intervieo dinner, and P alloo develop fart of fis tom said to w ed from a hunchback.