Now, the idea of a tutor was almost as unpleasant to Miss Theodora as the thought of the undesirable acquaintances that Ernest might make at a public school.
An unguarded expression of these feelings of hers one evening at the Digbys' led to an offer from Stuart Digby to share his son's tutor with Ernest, that the two boys might prepare for Harvard together.
The tutor and boy passed in review all the work hitherto accomplished and discussed the programme of future study.
George was sitting at his modest breakfast one morning, when his door suddenly opened, and the well-known and beloved face of his old tutor lit up the apartment.
As a soldier he fought in the Franco-German War, after which he was for some years tutor to one of the princes of the German imperial family.
Henry Baker became tutor to a deaf girl in 1720, and his success led to the establishment of a private school in London.
The dunce rose and smiled, and his tutor realized how little the dunce had to learn in some things.
But it was not probable that she would be meek when she found a self-appointed tutor teaching her manners and conduct without her consent.
Some, who had neglected their tutor all the term, now strove to absorb his omniscience in a sitting.
If you are high in your notions, get to be made a tutor in that New Jersey college.
I dare say your tutor would furnish a certificate.
On the other hand, it is next to impossible for a tutor to tell a pupil on the links everything about any particular stroke while he is playing it, and if he could it would not be remembered.
The services of a competent tutor will be as necessary to him as ever, and I must not be understood to suggest that this work can to any extent take the place of that compulsory and most invaluable tuition.
He was ordained as soon as he could be, and served the usual offices of tutor in his College and examiner in the University.
Tutor and pupil went to Edinburgh, just then in great vogue as an educational centre, in 1798; and there Sydney, besides doing clerical duty, stumbled upon his vocation as reviewer.
He took orders and was appointed to a curacy on Salisbury Plain, where the squire of the parish took a fancy to him and made him tutor to his eldest son.
He took orders, but neither became a tutor nor took a living, and established himself at Laleham, on the Thames, to take private pupils.
Green, a tutor of Balliol College, who between 1870 and his death propagated in Oxford a sort of neo-Hegelianism much tinctured with political and social Liberalism, and obtained a remarkable personal position.
After spending a few weeks at home, he went down to his new tutor at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight.
To Ernest's surprise, his tutor fully agreed with the advice Ellis had given him, and it was not long before he found himself on the deck of the "Fairy.
I should have been glad to have remained here another half, or even a year, but my father wishes me to read with a tutor whose exclusive occupation it is to prepare fellows for India; so I am to go to him in a few weeks.
Biographers give the name of his tutor in Dublin, but they add that Quin was illiterate, a character which is hardly established by the best of his bons mots.
The replies bore the address of a village near London; and stated that the writer was now reading with a tutor preparatory to entrance to Oxford, and could not, therefore, accept the invitation extended to him.
She had been telling the tutor about the success of his stratagem.
Mr. Ellis resisted for some time, but Diavolo was firm and would do nothing, and Lady Adeline cautioned the tutor to give in if he saw an opportunity of doing so with dignity.
They called it "talking it out"; and after they had sinned and suffered punishment, their great delight was to come and coax the tutor "to talk it out.
And it was certainly by means of his intelligent interpretation of it that their tutor managed to cultivate their tastes in many ways, and give them true ideas of art, and the importance of art, at the outset, and also of ethics.
We have to buy our own china, because we break so much," Angelica said, seeing that the tutor noticed it.
The twins worked well by fits and starts; but when they did not chose to be diligent, they considerately gave their tutor a holiday.
A friend of his, a brandy merchant, accompanied her in the chaise, the tutor rode first.
Count Charles Holmar, a subject of the King of Denmark, but Master of the Horse to the Duke of Holstein Oldenburg, and Tutor to the Princes of Holstein Oldenburg.
Stanhope recounts the following adventure which once befell d'Ivernois:-- "He was at one time on the Continent as a travelling tutor with two young Englishmen.
Miss Petre [11] made her escape from her father's house in Norfolk with her Brothers' tutor on Monday last.
In 1849 Mr. Birch, who had been head boy at Eton, taken high honours at Cambridge, and acted as one of the under masters at Eton, was appointed tutorto the Prince of Wales when the Prince was eight years of age.
Footnote: The Prince was then such a mere child that the tutor used to carry him in his arms up and down stairs.
Paul Hentzner, the tutorof a young German nobleman who visited England in 1598.
It is not on record when either of these houses was built, but Exton Hall was probably the work of John, Lord Harrington of Exton, the tutor of the Princess Elizabeth, only daughter of James I.
We know how Nero’s tutor opened his veins while in his bath, and how his young wife Paulina protested that she would die with him, and by a similar death.
His brother Seneca was the tutor of the son of Agrippina; his nephew, the boy Lucan, lived on terms of intimacy with the young prince.
This dear old man was my first tutor in Radicalism, and I was an apt pupil.
To whichTutor Flynt retorted dryly: "It is my opinion that you will not meet him there.
Opening from it, and approached by a second staircase, we find the chamber of Tutor Flynt, here the recessed bed is an interesting feature.
These were occupied by Dorothy's brother, Henry Flynt, who was the famous Tutor Flynt of Harvard.
Dionysius must have spoken too strongly when he says that Aristotle was tutor of Alexander for eight years; for in 340, when Philip went to war with Byzantium, Alexander became regent at home, at the age of sixteen.
But after a short time, during which he read the best Latin authors, he was deprived of his teacher by Gregorio's removal to France as tutor of Francesco Sforza.
Of this marriage there was a little son, who had for tutor a reverend young clergyman; and this tutor Dorothy Parsons married, four days after her husband's decease.
His baggage is seized at his quarters and at Tully-Veolan, and is found to contain a stock of pestilent Jacobitical pamphlets, enough to poison a whole country, besides the unprinted lucubrations of his worthy friend and tutor Mr. Pembroke.
The real shepherd accordingly was brought from the hill, and, as there was time to tutor him by the way, he was as deaf when he made his appearance as was necessary to sustain his character.
My guide and tutor respecting the manners of those steel-clad men," said the Princess Anna Comnena, "of whom it is so necessary that I should form an accurate idea.
Even here, however, his tutor was with him and idleness or pleasure was not allowed to occupy the field entirely.
