, and Mr. Tulliver’s heat was certainly more and more palpable. If there had been no new evidence on any other point, there had been new evidence that Pivart was as “thick as mud” with Wakem.
“Father,” said Tom, one evening near the end of the holidays, “uncle Glegg says Lawyer Wakem is Lorado Rapids Fodboldtrøjer going to send his son to Mr. Stelling. It isn’t true, what they said about his going to be sent to France. You won’t like me to go to school with Wakem’s son, shall you?”
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Mr. Atletico Madrid Trøjer Tulliver in his heart was rather proud of the fact that his son was to have Cote d'lvoire Pelipaidat the same advantages as Wakem’s; but Tom was not at all easy on the point. It would have been much clearer Italien Fodboldtrøjer if the lawyer’s son had not been deformed, for then Tom would have had the prospect of pitching into him with all that freedom which is derived from a high moral sanction.
Chapter III: The New Schoolfellow
It was a cold, wet January day on which Tom went back to school; a day quite in keeping with this severe phase of his destiny. If he had not carried in his Tottenham Hotspur Fodboldtrøjer pocket a parcel of sugar-candy and a small Dutch doll for little Laura, there would have been no ray FC Porto Trøjer of expected pleasure to enliven the general gloom. But he liked to think how Laura would put out her lips and her tiny hands for the bits of sugarcandy; and to give the greater keenness to these pleasures of imagination, he took out the parcel, made a small hole in the paper, and bit off a crystal or two, which had so solacing an effect under the confined prospect and damp odors of the gig-umbrella, that he repeated the process more than once on his way.
“Well, Tulliver, we’re glad to see you again,” said Mr. Stelling, heartily. “Take off your wrappings and come into the study till dinner. You’ll find a bright fire there, and a new companion.”
Tom felt in an uncomfortable flutter as he took off his woollen comforter and other wrappings. He had seen Philip Wakem at St. Ogg’s, but had always turned his eyes away from him as quickly as possible. He would have disliked having Orlando Pirates a deformed boy for his companion, even if Philip had not been the son of a bad man. And Tom did not see how a bad man’s son could be very Herre Parajumpers Truman Parka good. His own father was a good man, and he would readily have fought Naisten Boca Juniors Pelipaidat any one who said the contrary. He was in a state of mingled Germany Dame Fodboldtrøjer embarrassment and defiance as he followed Mr. Stelling to the study.
“Here is a new companion for you to shake hands with, Tulliver,” said that gentleman on entering the study — “Master Philip Wakem. I shall leave you to make acquaintance by yourselves. You already know something of each other, I imagine; for you are neighbors at home.”
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