If we were in England, and Sam could go to Eton, which, I take it you know, is the best school in the world, I would still earnestly ask you to continue your work.

He will probably inherit a great deal of money, and will not have to push his way in the world by his brains; so that close scholarship will be rather unnecessary.

I should like him to know history well and thoroughly; for he may mix in the political life of this little colony by and by.

Latin grammar, you know," he said, laughing, "is indispensable.

Doctor, I trust my boy with you because I know that you will make him a gentleman, as his mother, with God's blessing, will make him a Christian." So, the Doctor buckled to his task again, with renewed energy; to Euclid, Latin grammar, and fractions.