The boy, who was now turned of six, having profited
so little under the birch of his unsparing governor, Mrs. Pickle
was counselled to send him to a boarding-school not far from London,
which was kept by a certain person very eminent for his successful
method of education. This advice she the more readily embraced,
because at that time she found herself pretty far gone with another
child that she hoped would console her for the disappointment she
had met with in the unpromising talents of Perry, or at any rate
divide her concern, so as to enable her to endure the absence of
either.
CHAPTER XII.
Peregrine is sent to a boarding-school--Becomes remarkable for his
Genius and Ambition.
The commodore, understanding her determination, to which her husband
did not venture to make the least objection, interested himself
so much in behalf of his favourite, as to fit him out at his own
charge, and accompany him in person to the place of his destination;
where he defrayed the expense of his entrance, and left him to
the particular care and inspection of the usher, who having been
recommended to him as a person of parts and integrity, received
per advance a handsome consideration for the task he undertook.
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