It may be imagined, that a Gentleman ſo qualified, and ſo diſpoſed, was in no danger of becoming formidable to the learned Seminaries of Eton or Weſtminfter. To ſpeak plainly, his Scholars were divided into two Claſſes. In the upper of which was a young Gentleman, the Son of a neighbouring ’Squire, who at the Age of Seventeen was juſt entered into his Syntaxis; and in the lower was a ſecond Son of the ſame Gentleman, who, together with ſeven Pariſh-boys, was learning to read and write.
The Stipend ariſing hence would hardly have indulged the Schoolmaſter in the Luxuries of Life, had he not added to this Office thoſe of Clerk and Barber, and had not Mr. Allworthy added to the whole an Annuity of Ten Pound, which the poor Man received every Chriſtmas, and with which he was enabled to chear his Heart during that ſacred Feſtival.
Among his other Treaſures, the Pedagogue had a Wife whom he had married out of Mr. Allworthy’s Kitchen, for her Fortune, viz. Twenty Pound, which ſhe had there amaſſed.
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