Falkner Lyle, Or, Vol. 3 of 3

Excerpt from Falkner Lyle, Or

The difficult forbearance which the dominie is called upon to exercise towards the dull, the un willing, or the refractory pupil, must be no easy task. The monotonous repetition of lessons so well known to the teacher, that the beauty of the poet's thoughts, the charms of the eloquent narrative of the historian, afford no compensation for the constrained attention to the bungling scholar  the constant watchfulness and almost parental anxiety for the health and conduct of those confided to his care  the necessity for being the careful councillor, the impartial judge.