CHAPTER 9Come hether freind, I am ashamed to hear that what I hear of you.... You have almost attayned to the age of nyne yeeres, at least to eight and a halfe, and seeing that you knowe your dutie, if you neglect it you deserve greater punishment then he which through ignorance doth it not. Think not that the nobilitie of your Ancestors doth free you to doe all that you list, contrarywise, it bindeth you more to followe vertue.
—Pierre Erondell
‘So,’ said the Bursar, coming briskly up to the High Table for lunch on the following Thursday; ‘Jukes has come to grief once more....’
‘Has he been stealing again?’ asked Miss Lydgate. ‘Dear me, how disappointing!’
‘Annie tells me she’s had her suspicions for some time, and yesterday being her half-day she went down to tell Mrs. Jukes she woul
