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“But do you think they’d give the poor lad twice o’ pudding?” said Mrs. Tulliver, who was now in her place again. “He’s such a boy for pudding as never was; an’ a growing boy like that — it’s dreadful to think o’ their stintin’ him.”
“And what money ‘ud he want?” said Mr. Tulliver, whose instinct told him that the services of this admirable M.A. would bear a high price.
“Why, I know of a clergyman who asks a hundred and fifty with his youngest pupils,Alex Morgan Jersey, and he’s not to be mentioned with Stelling, the man I speak of. I know, on good authority,Hugo Campagnaro Jersey, that one of the chief people at Oxford said, Stelling might get the highest honors if he chose. But he didn’t care about university honors; he’s a quiet man — not noisy.”
“Ah, a deal better — a deal better,Koszulki Robert Lewandowski,” said Mr. Tulliver; “but a hundred and fifty’s an uncommon price. I never thought o’ paying so much as that.”
“A good education,Niklas Dorsch Jersey, let me tell you, Tulliver — a good education is cheap at the money. But Stelling is moderate in his terms; he’s not a grasping man. I’ve no doubt he’d take your boy at a hundred, and that’s what you wouldn’t get many other clergymen to do. I’ll write to him about it, if you like.”
Mr. Tulliver rubbed his knees, and looked at the carpet in a meditative manner.
“But belike he’s a bachelor,” observed Mrs. Tulliver, in the interval; “an’ I’ve no opinion o’ housekeepers. There was my brother,Croatia Drakt Barn, as is dead an’ gone,Bayern Munchen Drakter, had a housekeeper once,Nahuel Guzman Jersey, an’ she took half the feathers out o’ the best bed,Duisburg Drakter, an’ packed ’em up an’ sent ’em away. An’ it’s unknown the linen she made away with — Stott her name was. It ‘ud break my heart to send Tom where there’s a housekeeper, an’ I hope you won’t think of it,Raphael Guerreiro Jersey, Mr. Tulliver.”
“You may set your mind at rest on that score, Mrs. Tulliver,” said Mr. Riley, “for Stelling is married to as nice a little woman as any man need wish for a wife. There isn’t a kinder little soul in the world; I know her family well. She has very much your complexion — light curly hair. She comes of a good Mudport family, and it’s not every offer that would have been acceptable in that quarter. But Stelling’s not an every-day man; rather a particular fellow as to the people he chooses to be connected with. But I think he would have no objection to take your son; I think he would not, on my representation.”
“I don’t know what he could have against the lad,Andres Guardado Jersey,” said Mrs. Tulliver,Filipe Luis Jersey, with a slight touch of motherly indignation; “a nice fresh-skinned lad as anybody need wish to see.”
“But there’s one thing I’m thinking on,Spain Drakt Barn,” said Mr. Tulliver, turning his head on one side and looking at Mr. Riley, after a long perusal of the carpet. “Wouldn’t a parson be almost too high-learnt to bring up a lad to be a man o’ business? My notion o’ the parsons was as they’d got a sort o’ learning as lay mostly out o’ sight. And that isn’t what I want fo
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