"A School-prize?"
"Yes; Lord Charles Russell's Shakespeare Medal. The exam. is next October. I'll coach you. Is it a bargain?"
He held out his hand, staring frankly, but piercingly, into John's eyes.
"All right, sir," said John, after a pause. "I'll try."
"And buck up for your remove."
John smiled feebly, and sighed.
FOOTNOTES:
[27] There is a tablet on the wall of the Old Schools which bears the following inscription:—Near this spot Anthony Ashley Cooper Afterwards the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. While yet a boy in Harrow School Saw with shame and indignation The pauper's funeral Which helped to awaken his lifelong Devotion to the service of the poor And the oppressed.