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Almost certainly it is a quality which we should 

 not find had his tutor been successful in the 

 attempt to make of him a finished scholar. 



It was not, as it would seem, in any degree 

 because the system, as has been said, did not 

 suit him, that his removal from Eton took place 

 at the early age of fourteen, when he had been 

 there only for the brief space of three years. 

 The exigencies of the ancestral banking business 

 suggested the removal in the first instance, and 

 no doubt the fact that the scholastic course did 

 not seem to be developing his powers along their 

 natural lines caused the idea of that removal to 

 be considered more favourably than might other- 

 wise have been the case alike by himself, by his 

 father, and by his tutor. That these considera- 

 tions had their natural weight is made clear 

 from some notes in his own hand, relative to 

 his early entry into the business. 



