It ended in his leaving school and going to work.

This course met with some opposition from his mother, who had madly ambitious plans for him.

She had influenced Elmira to leave school the year before, that she might earn more, and thereby enable her brother to study longer, but he knew nothing of that.
However, a plan which Jerome formed for some evening lessons with the school-master appeased her.

It savored of a private tutor like Lawrence Prescott's.

Nobody knew how Ann Edwards had resented Doctor Prescott's sending his son to Boston to be fitted for college, while hers could have nothing better than a few terms at the district school.