life, and on the strength of that knowledge would have been PJS Miehet Gobi ready any day to pronounce that whatever domestic differences might arise in her married life must be entirely Mr. Stelling’s fault.
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“Well, my lad,” he said to Tom, when Mr. Stelling had left the room to announce Paris Saint Germain Børn Fodboldtrøjer the arrival to his wife, and Maggie had begun to kiss Tom freely, “you look rarely! School agrees with you.”
Tom wished he had looked rather ill.
“I don’t think I am well, father,” said Tom; “I wish you’d ask Mr. Stelling not to let me do Euclid; it brings on the toothache, I think.”
(The toothache was the only malady to which Tom had ever been subject.)
“Euclid, my lad — why, what’s that?” said Mr. Tulliver.
“Oh, I don’t know; it’s definitions, and axioms, and Newcastle triangles, and things. It’s a book I’ve got to learn in — there’s no sense in it.”
“Go, go!” said Mr. Tulliver, reprovingly; “you mustn’t say so. You must learn what your master tells you. He knows what it’s right for you to learn.”
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