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accordingly came daily to teach Charles and me French. This 

 was a very happy, agreeable winter, and, besides the enjoyment, 

 we received the benefit of the instructions of a whole mob of 

 French masters. Mons. F. taught elocution ; Mons. S. dancing, 

 Mons. K drawing, Mons. E. music, Mr B. French ; and lastly, 

 we went to the barracks of the pompiers (firemen) to be 

 exercised by a sergeant in gymnastics. Returned home to 

 England in May. This time we also brought a tutor with us, 

 Mr K., a German ; but though he got us on very well with 

 German and French, yet his temper was so disagreeable that 

 we had to part with him in the autumn. He was a native of 

 Saxony, banished from thence for writing against the Government. 

 This winter, instead of living at Eose Cottage, which was getting 

 too small for us, we went into Susan's. 



1837. — Having now no tutor in the house, Eeginald went 

 to the Rev. Mr T.'s, who lived on the other side of Clapham 

 Common, with about a dozen pupils. Charles and I received 

 daily lessons from Mr E. (nicknamed M'Diarmid), who taught us 

 writing, English, geography, and the globes, chemistry, geometry, 

 &c., &c. 



1838. — Charles and I now went to school at the Rev. 

 Mr G.'s, Clapham, where there were about twenty other boys 

 besides ourselves. Of course we disliked it exceedingly, it being 

 the first time of our leaving home. When the summer holi- 

 days came on, we went down to Susan's, Eastbourne. After 

 this, instead of returning to Mr G.'s, I was sent to Dr B.'s, 

 Coombe Wood, near Kingston-upon-Thames. It was a much 

 larger school, containing sixty boys, and it was conducted on the 



