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Excerpt: "Theodore Warrender was still at Oxford when his father died. He was a youth who had come up from his school with the highest hopes of what he was to do at the university. It had indeed been laid out for him by an admiring tutor with anticipations which were almost certainties: "If you will only work as well as you have done these last two years!" These years had been spent in the dignified ranks of Sixth Form, where he had done almost everything that boy can do. It was expected that the School would have had a holiday when he and Brunson went up for the scholarships in their chosen college, and everybody calculated on the "double event." Brunson got the scholarship in question, but Warrender failed, which at first astonished everybody, but was afterwards more than accounted for by the fact that his fine and fastidious mind had been carried away by the Æschylus paper, which he made into an exhaustive analysis of the famous trilogy, to the neglect of other less inviting subjects. His tutor was thus almost more proud of him for having failed than if he had succeeded, and Sixth Form in general accepted Brunson's success apologetically as that of an "all-round" man, whose triumph did not mean so much. But if there is any place where the finer scholarship ought to tell, it should be in Oxford, and his school tutor, as has been said, laid out for him a sort of little map of what he was to do. There were the Hertford and the Ireland scholarships, almost as a matter of course; a first in moderations, but that went without saying; at least one of the Vice-Chancellor's prizes—probably the Newdigate, or some other unconsidered trifle of the kind; another first class in Greats; a fellowship. "If you don't do more than this I will be disappointed in you," the school tutor said."
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Rating★★★ 3.5 (46)
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length17 hrs 23 mins
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Publish dateAug 27, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I.
26CHAPTER XXVI.
2CHAPTER II.
27CHAPTER XXVII.
3CHAPTER III.
28CHAPTER XXVIII.
4CHAPTER IV.
29CHAPTER XXIX.
5CHAPTER V.
30CHAPTER XXX.
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6CHAPTER VI.
31CHAPTER XXXI.
7CHAPTER VII
32CHAPTER XXXII.
8CHAPTER VIII.
33CHAPTER XXXIII.
9CHAPTER IX.
34CHAPTER XXXIV.
10CHAPTER X.
35CHAPTER XXXV.
11CHAPTER XI.
36CHAPTER XXXVI.
12CHAPTER XII.
37CHAPTER XXXVII.
13CHAPTER XIII.
38CHAPTER XXXVIII.
14CHAPTER XIV.
39CHAPTER XXXIX.
15CHAPTER XV.
40CHAPTER XL.
16CHAPTER XVI.
41CHAPTER XLI.
17CHAPTER XVII.
42CHAPTER XLII.
18CHAPTER XVIII.
43CHAPTER XLIII.
19CHAPTER XIX.
44CHAPTER XLIV.
20CHAPTER XX.
45CHAPTER XLV.
21CHAPTER XXI.
46CHAPTER XLVI.
22CHAPTER XXII.
47CHAPTER XLVII.
23CHAPTER XXIII.
48CHAPTER XLVIII.
24CHAPTER XXIV
49CHAPTER XLIX.
25CHAPTER XXV.
50CHAPTER L.
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