less to speak, 

 enforced, thouj 



MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE. 



But as time went on, this silence 

 jh talking seldom lasted long, for 



rule was 

 soon all 



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not 

 the 



dormitories throughout the school were hushed in slumber. 



The attic where we slept had probably, in its old inn days, 

 sheltered many a weary traveller, who gladly would have changed 

 places with either of the twenty urchins herded together there with 

 me. But the first few hours' experience of school-life caused me to 

 lie down upon my iron bed — the first night which fell on Marlborough 

 College — in far from an enviable state of mind. 



