"Why, what can you be going to send him to a parson for?" he said, with an amazed twinkling in his eyes, looking at Mr. Glegg and Mr. Deane, to see if they showed any signs of comprehension.
"Why, because the parsons are the best schoolmasters,by what I can make out," said poor Mr. Tulliver, who,in the maze of this puzzling world, laid hold of any clue with great readiness and tenacity. "Jacobs at th'academy's no parson, and he's done very bad by the boy; and I made up my mind, if I send him to school again, it should be to somebody different to Jacobs.And this Mr. Stelling, by what I can make out, is the sort o' man I want. And I mean my boy to go to him at Midsummer," he concluded, in a tone of decision,tapping his snuff-box and taking a pinch.