Tremordyn Cliff Author:Frances Milton Trollope Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. " Death, a necessary end, Will come when it wilt come." Shakspeare. Despite all the care and caution used by Lady Augusta, and in which Mr. ... more »Hall carefully followed her, Lord Steinfort manifested very considerable dislike to the idea of having any other instructor than "sister Augusta," and his favourite music-master. As to any advantage to be derived by him from all and every thing which Mr. Hall could teach, her ladyship attached quite as little value to it as the young nobleman himself; but she foresaw that if he could not be brought to submit to this, some other scheme of education, infinitely more at variance with her own objects, must necessarily be adopted. To prevent this, she so far deviated from her system of indulgence as to persevere in obliging Theodore to endure a daily lesson from his tutor, though for many days the penance was accompanied by tears, which flowed nearly the whole time it lasted. Having, however, at length convinced the astonished child that, notwithstanding his dislike to the arrangement, it must continue, sbe set herself to mitigate by every possible means the mortification it occasioned him. She consented to be daily present at the short lesson, and permitted him, when it was over, to remain in his own apartments with his tutor, or to establish himself in hers, at his pleasure. This immediately converted the highly-paid office of Mr. Hall into very nearly a sinecure, and never did mortal man hug himself with more kindly feelings of affectionate congratulation than did this gentleman, as day by day he more fully discovered the downy easiness of his position. What mattered it to him, if, while sharing the luxurious delicacy of the earl's table, it was made manifest to his comprehension that the air he breathed was to be cons...« less