1 You were many years at my school.
2 All through school hours I make mistakes.
3 It was his school, and he intended it to be a model.
4 My schooling was paid for; it was a bargain; and when I came away, the bargain ended.
5 Mr. Gradgrind walked homeward from the school, in a state of considerable satisfaction.
6 Let me hear of your running in this manner any more, boy, and you will hear of me through the master of the school.
7 Moreover, the healthy spirits who had mounted to this sublime height were attractive to many of the Gradgrind school.
8 Albeit it was as much against the precepts of his school to wonder, as it was against the doctrines of the Gradgrind College.
9 I said all the affectionate things to him that came into my heart, and presently he was quiet and I sat down by him, and told him all about the school and everything that had been said and done there.
10 I, who came here to inform the father of the poor girl, Jupe, that she could not be received at the school any more, in consequence of there being practical objections, into which I need not enter, to the reception there of the children of persons so employed, am prepared in these altered circumstances to make a proposal.
11 They were ruined, when they were required to send labouring children to school; they were ruined when inspectors were appointed to look into their works; they were ruined, when such inspectors considered it doubtful whether they were quite justified in chopping people up with their machinery; they were utterly undone, when it was hinted that perhaps they need not always make quite so much smoke.