How He Passed
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MR. STANBROUGH’S DREAM
Eaton Square, W.
Dear Mr. Tyrrel, – I shall call on you tomorrow afternoon. It is of paramount importance that I should know, with absolute certainty, if Leonard will pass. I fear! I fear! But if you can only assure me that he will, you will earn the undying gratitude of yours sincerely,
Violet Stanbrough.
“Well, my dear Lady Stanbrough, I can assure you, with absolute certainty, that he won’t.” So I told myself as I perused her ladyship’s letter. “A young man comes to us who knows nothing, and who, while he continues here, insists on learning less, and then his fond mother expects us to precipitate him to the head of the pass list by some process of hanky-panky, which, I imagine, is supposed to be known to crammers. No, my dear madam, had i
