Pendennis$$$ sir$$$ he said$$$ "your idleness is incorrigible and your stupidity beyond example. You are a disgrace to your school$$$ and to your family$$$ and I have no doubt will prove so in after-life to your country. If that vice$$$ sir$$$ which is described to us as the root of all evil$$$ be really what moralists have represented (and I have no doubt of the correctness of their opinion)$$$ for what a prodigious quantity of future crime and wickedness are you$$$ unhappy boy$$$ laying the seed! Miserable trifler! A boy who construes de and$$$ instead of de but$$$ at sixteen years of age is guilty not merely of folly$$$ and ignorance$$$ and dulness inconceivable$$$ but of crime$$$ of deadly crime$$$ of filial ingratitude$$$ which I tremble to contemplate. A boy$$$ sir$$$ who does not learn his Greek play cheats the parent who spends money for his education. A boy who cheats his parent is not very far from robbing or forging upon his neighbour. A man who forges on his neighbour pays the penalty of his crime at the gallows. And it is not such a one that I pity (for he will be deservedly cut off)$$$ but his maddened and heart-broken parents$$$ who are driven to a premature grave by his crimes$$$ or$$$ if they live$$$ drag on a wretched and dishonoured old age. Go on$$$ sir$$$ and I warn you that the very next mistake that you make shall subject you to the punishment of the rod. Who's that laughing? What ill-conditioned boy is there that dares to laugh?" shouted the Doctor.
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