Chapter 1. The School, The Master, And His Boys
_ CHAPTER ONE. THE SCHOOL, THE MASTER, AND HIS BOYS
It was a half-holiday. One of our fellows who had lately taken his degree and passed as Senior Wrangler had asked it for us. He had just come down for a few hours to see the Doctor and the old place. How we cheered him! How proudly the Doctor looked at him! What a great man we thought him! He was a great man! for he had won a great victory,--not only over his fellow-men, not only over his books, by compelling them to give up the knowledge they contained,--but over his love of pleasure； over a tendency to indolence； over his temper and passions； and now Henry Martin was able to commence the earnest struggle of life with the consciousness, which of itself gives strength, that he had obtained the most important of all victories--that over self.
There he stood, surrounded by some of the bigger boys who had been at school with him； a pleasant smile on his countenance as he loo

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