round this very tree.

"Philip," said his father, suddenly, "you will hold the yeoman's Staff
one day; be like it of an oaken English heart, and you will defy wind
and weather as it has done, and as your forbears have done. Come, we
must go on."

"By the way, Philip," he continued, after a while, "you will remember
what I said to you this morning--I hope that you will remember it,
though I spoke in anger--never try to deceive me again, or you will
regret it. And now I have something to say to you. I wish you to go to
college and receive an education that will fit you to hold the
position you must in the course of Nature one day fill in the county.
The Oxford term begins in a few days, and you have for some years been
entered at Magdalen College. I do not expect you to be a scholar, but
I do expect you to brush off your rough ways and your local ideas, and
to learn to become such a person both in your conduct and your mind as
a gentleman of your station should be."

"Is George to go to college too?"

"No; I have spoken to him on the subject, and he does not wish it. He
says very wisely that, with his small prospects, he would rather spend
the time in learning how to earn his living. So he is going to be
articled to the Roxham lawyers, Foster and Son, or rather Foster and
Bellamy, for young Bellamy, who is a lawyer by profession, came here
this morning, not to speak about you, but on a message from the firm
to say that he is now a junior partner, and that they will be very
happy to take George as an articled clerk. He is a hard-working,
shrewd young man, and it will be a great advantage to George to have