You thought, last autumn, a great deal of curing your careless habits, now you seem not to have time to attend.

You can do a great deal very fast, I know, but isn't it a pity to be always in a hurry ?" "It isn't Cocksmoor that is the reason," said Ethel.
"No; you did pretty well when you began, but you know that was in the holidays, when you had no Latin and Greek to do." "Oh, but, Margaret, they won't take so much time when I have once got over the difficulties, and see my way, but just now they have put Norman into such a frightfully difficult play, that I can hardly get on at all with it, and there's a new kind of Greek verses, too, and I don't make out from the book how to manage them.

Norman showed me on Saturday, but mine won't be right.

When I've got over that, I shan't be so hurried." "But Norman will go on to something harder, I suppose." "I dare say I shall be able to do it." "Perhaps you might, but I want you to consider if you are not working beyond what can be good for anybody.

You see Norman is much cleverer than most boys, and you are a year younger; and besides doing all his work at the head of the school, his whole business of the day, you have Cocksmoor to attend to, and your own lessons, besides reading all the books that come into the house.