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The Firm of Girdlestone

CHAPTER V
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If he behave indecorously he is liable to be pounced upon and reported by special officials, and a code of punishments is hung perpetually over his head.

In return for all this his University takes a keen interest in him.

She pats him on the back if he succeeds.
Prizes and scholarships, and fine fat fellowships are thrown plentifully in his way if he will gird up his loins and aspire to them.
There is nothing of this in a Scotch University.

The young aspirant pays his pound, and finds himself a student.

After that he may do absolutely what he will.


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