This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...I do call it 'ard, very 'ard--tutor or no tutor." "Tutor!" exclaimed Gilly, enlightenment for the first time flashing in upon his mind. "Do you mean, Mrs. Bwown, that that funny, spiky-looking little man has come here to be my tutor?" "Far, very far am I from saying that you 'ave not arrived at suitable years ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...I do call it 'ard, very 'ard--tutor or no tutor." "Tutor!" exclaimed Gilly, enlightenment for the first time flashing in upon his mind. "Do you mean, Mrs. Bwown, that that funny, spiky-looking little man has come here to be my tutor?" "Far, very far am I from saying that you 'ave not arrived at suitable years for to be made over to the care of gentlemen," Mrs. Brown continued, in the same tone of forced and resolute elevation. "You being now nine years of age the seventeenth of last month, an' no conveniences for education to be had on this barbarious sort of a island, so that if you must stop in such a place--though why you should, or any of us, 'eaven knows--I don't deny but what you might 'ave need of a tutor. An' if so be that one of the family 'ad 'ave come an' 'ave introduced him proper, an' he a suitabler, agreeabler-mannered gentleman--why, I am not the woman to have stood in his way for a moment, not for one single instant moment." "A tutor!" Ideas were flying pretty briskly to and fro in Gilly's brain while the concluding portion of this harangue was going on. He had almost given up expecting to hear any more about such an infliction. Before leaving London there had been, he knew, a good deal of discussion as to what was to be done with him before he went to Eton. He remembered that mummy had wished him to be sent to some clergyman--Hon. and Rev. something or other, he had seen the address on an envelope. It was fader who wouldn't have him go there, and had sent them to Inishbeg instead. It was fader, too, who had settled with Mr. Moriarty that he was to run about over the hills, and to go for rows, and to do various other things independently of Mrs. Brown and the nursery party....
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