ABSTRACT
I think my lady was not aware of Mr. Horner’s views on education (as making men into more useful members of society) or the a practice to which he was putting his precepts in taking Harry Gregson as pupil and protégé; if, indeed, she were aware of Harry’s distinct existence at all, until the following unfortunate occasion. The anteroom, which was a kind of business-place for my lady to receive her steward and tenants in, was surrounded by shelves. I cannot call them book-shelves, though there were many books on them; but the contents of the volumes were principally manuscript, and relating to details connected with the Hanbury property. There were also one or two dictionaries, gazetteers, works of reference on the management of property; all of a very old date (the dictionary was Bailey’s, b I remember; we had a great Johnson 56 in my lady’s room, but where lexicographers differed, she generally preferred Bailey). c
