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“We learned Latin,” said Tom, pausing a little between each item, as if he were turning over the books in his school-desk to assist his memory — “a good deal of Latin; and the last year I did Themes, one week in Latin and one in English; and Greek and Roman history; and Euclid; and I began Algebra, but I left it off again; and we had one day Olympic USA Paidat every week for Arithmetic. Then I used to Regan Poole Drakter have drawing-lessons; and there were several other books we either read or learned out of — English Poetry, and Horae Pauline and Blair’s Rhetoric, the Fernando Drakter last half.”
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“Ah, young gentleman,” said Mr. Deane, with that tendency to repress youthful hopes which stout and successful men of fifty find one of their easiest duties, “that’s sooner said than done — sooner said than done.”
“But didn’t you get on in that way, uncle?” said Tom, a little irritated that Mr. Deane did not enter more rapidly into his views. “I mean, didn’t you rise from one place to another through your abilities and good conduct?”
“Ay, ay, sir,” said Mr. Deane, spreading himself in his chair a little, and entering with great readiness into a retrospect of his own career. “But I’ll tell you how I got on. It wasn’t by getting astride a stick and thinking it would turn into a horselinks:
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