{"product_id":"2940151440370","title":"Usher of Lea House School, The Classic Short Story","description":"\"Why, Mr. Weld,\" said he, \"this is really rather an interesting coincidence. I understand you to say that Latin and English are your subjects, and that you would prefer for a time to accept a place in an elementary establishment, where you would have time for private study?\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Quite so.\" \u003cbr\u003e\"This note contains a request from an old client of ours, Dr. Phelps McCarthy, of Willow Lea House Academy, West Hampstead, that I should at once send him a young man who should be qualified to teach Latin and English to a small class of boys under fourteen years of age. His vacancy appears to be the very one which you are looking for. The terms are not munificent--sixty pounds, board, lodging, and washing--but the work is not onerous, and you would have the evenings to yourself.\" \u003cbr\u003e\"That would do,\" I cried, with all the eagerness of the man who sees work at last after weary months of seeking. \u003cbr\u003e\"I don't know that it is quite fair to these gentlemen whose names have been so long upon our list,\" said Mr. Lumsden, glancing down at his open ledger. \"But the coincidence is so striking that I feel we must really give you the refusal of it.\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Then I accept it, sir, and I am much obliged to you.\" \u003cbr\u003e\"There is one small provision in Dr. McCarthy's letter. He stipulates that the applicant must be a man with an imperturbable good temper.\" \u003cbr\u003e\"I am the very man,\" said I, with conviction. \u003cbr\u003e\"Well,\" said Mr. Lumsden, with some hesitation, \"I hope that your temper is really as good as you say, for I rather fancy that you may need it.\" \u003cbr\u003e\"I presume that every elementary school-master does.\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Yes, sir, but it is only fair to you to warn you that there may be some especially trying circumstances in this particular situation. Dr. Phelps McCarthy does not make such a condition without some very good and pressing reason.\"","brand":"Starling and Black","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080667054320,"sku":"2940151440370","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151440370_p0.jpg?v=1764010610","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151440370","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}