I have asked little of you, and you have come and gone pretty much as you pleased.

In a way, I have put you on your honor, made you largely your own master, trusting to your sense of right to restrain you from going wrong and at least to keep you up in your studies.

And you have failed me.

What do you want me to do?
Set you certain bounds and time-limits?
Keep a watch over you?
Compel you by main strength to go through your books?
"I have here a note," Mr.Bronson said after another pause, in which he picked up an envelop from the table and drew forth a written sheet.
Joe recognized the stiff and uncompromising scrawl of Miss Wilson, and his heart sank.
His father began to read: "Listlessness and carelessness have characterized his term's work, so that when the examinations came he was wholly unprepared.

In neither history nor arithmetic did he attempt to answer a question, passing in his papers perfectly blank.