If strict discipline can do anything for you, you shall have the benefit of it, you may depend upon that." Oscar was now two-thirds of the way through his last year in the school he attended.

His parents were anxious that he should go through the High School course of studies, and, indeed, he had applied for admission to that school the summer previous to this, but did not pass the examination.

There was still some doubt whether he would succeed any better at the next examination; and in case of his failure, his parents had decided to send him to a boarding-school in the country.
But there was nothing very alarming to him in the idea of going into such an establishment, notwithstanding all his father said of the strict discipline to which he would be subjected.

There would be a novelty about it, he imagined, that would make it quite pleasant.
Consequently, he cared very little whether he was accepted as a High School pupil or not..