think she ever did us anything but good, though I am afraid we
laughed at 'Old Newton' as we grew older and more conceited. We
never had another governess. My mother read and enforced diligence
on Emily and me, and we had masters for different studies; the two
boys went to school; and when Martyn began to emerge from babyhood,
Emily was his teacher.



CHAPTER III--WIN AND SLOW



'The rude will shuffle through with ease enough:
Great schools best suit the sturdy and the rough.'

COWPER.

At school Griffith was very happy, and brilliantly successful, alike
in study and sport, though sports were not made prominent in those
days, and triumphs in them were regarded by the elders with doubtful
pride, lest they should denote a lack of attention to matters of
greater importance. All his achievements were, however, poured
forth by himself and Clarence to Emily and me, and we felt as proud
of them as if they had been our own.

Clarence was industrious, and did not fail in his school work, but
when he came home for the holidays there was a cowed look about him,
and private revelations were made over my sofa that made my flesh
creep. The scars were still visible, caused by having been