...evening, when the horrors of the school were over ; but it all added to the cruelty of the days .... The indignities I endured are not to be described....did I learn anything — for I was taught nothing .... I was never a coward, and cared for a thrashing as little as any boy, but one cannot make a stand...

...sit next to the sons of peers or — much worse still — next to the sons of big tradesmen, who had made their ten thousand a year ? The indignities I...as well as boys. I was allowed to join in no plays. Trollope also tells us that the master took care to inform the class, in the boy's hearing, that Trollope...

...again, of his later time : " I had not only no friends, but was despised by all my companions " ; or, " The indignities I endured are not to be described....Nor did I learn anything, for I was taught nothing. . . . There were twelve years of tuition in which I do not remember that I ever knew a lesson. When...

...dunghill, to sit next to the sons of peers, or much worse, still next to the sons of big tradesmen, who had made their ten thousand a year? The indignities I...me that all hands were turned against me, those of master as well as boys. I was allowed to join in no plays. Nor did I learn anything— for I was taught...

...be described. As I look back, it seems to me that all hands were turned against me, those of master as well as boys. I was allowed to join in no plays....I learn anything — for I was taught nothing. The one consolation which Trollope had seems to have been the privilege of sitting in the kitchen of the...

...dunghill, to sit next to the sons of peers — or worse still, next to the sons of big tradesmen who had made their ten thousand a year? The indignities I...The only expense, except that of books, to which a house boarder was then subject, was the fee to a tutor, amounting, I think, to ten guineas. My tutor...

...peers - or much worse still, next to the sons of big tradesmen who had made their ten thousand a-year? The indignities I endured are not to be described....against me - those of masters as well as boys ... I was never able to overcome . . . the absolute isolation of my school position. Of the cricket-ground or...

...at Harrow. Let us hope that Anthony Trollope's experience was not typical : " The indignities which I endured are not to be described. As I look back it seems to me that all hands were turned against (Continutd on page 136) 134 TWO CENTURIES OF CHANGE A History of Great Britain and the British Empire...