"I cannot, however, allow you, my dear Harry, to leave school under the present circumstances," said my father.  "You must learn to obey your superiors, and to command yourself, before you will be fit to go into the world.  Whatever course of life you pursue, you will have many things to do which you will dislike, or in which you may from inclination take no interest; but this will afford you but a poor excuse for not doing your duty.  What do you think the captain of a ship would say to an officer who had not obeyed his orders, should the latter remark to him, `Really, sir, I felt so little interest in the matter, or I disliked it so very much, that I could not bring myself to perform the work?'  Yet this is what you have been doing, my boy.  I will say no more on the subject.  You will go back to school at the end of the holidays; and if I find that, from a sense of duty, you are attending, to the best of your power, to the studies your master may select for you, I will take your wishes into my very earnest consideration, and see how I can best carry them out for your advantage."