Wellington (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Much home-life after he had passed out of the nursery. Certain it is that he rarely alluded to his early days, and the conduct attributed to Lady Mornington may account for his perfunctory visits to her when he was the Duke, which made Mr. Greville, who could know nothing of the facts, write him down a hard man. At some time, then, he was placed in a school at Chelsea, whence, for a brief period, he went to Eton. In neither did he shine, and it has been often said that, in after years, when Eton was proud of him, nothing could be remembered to his credit or discredit except that he fought a battle with Bohus Smith, the brother of the witty Canon of St. Paul's. From Eton he was sent to a French military school, England, according to her wont, having none of her own, and no military institutions of any sort, nothing but makeshifts for institutions. The French school selected for Arthur Wesley was at Angers on the Maine. Mr. Raikes was told by General Sir A. Mackenzie that the school was much frequented by young Englishmen, because the Governor, the Marquis de Pignerol, an Engineer, looked after their studies, and also because his brother had a fine riding-school. The General remembered the young Arthur, but all he could say was that the boy was rather weak in health, not very attentive to his studies, and constantly occupied with a little terrier called Vick, which followed him everywhere. A more definite glimpse of the student than that we cannot get: it is as vague as the boxing match at Eton 5 but it enables us to picture the slim bright-eyed boy, idling in the streets of the picturesque old town, or playing with Vick on the steep cliffs which rise out of the water just below the confluence of.

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