But the flames of the bonfire caught the blinds of the professor's
room, and set fire to the building, and came near burning up the
whole institution. Agamemnon regretted the result as much as his
predecessor, who gave him his name, must have regretted that
other bonfire, on the shores of Aulis, that deprived him of a
daughter.
The result for Agamemnon was that he was requested to leave,
after having been in the institution but a few months.
He left another college in consequence of a misunderstanding
about the hour for morning prayers. He went every day regularly
at ten o'clock, but found, afterward, that he should have gone at
half-past six. This hour seemed to him and to Mrs. Peterkin
unseasonable, at a time of year when the sun was not up, and he
would have been obliged to go to the expense of candles.
Agamemnon was always willing to try another college, wherever
he could be admitted. He wanted to attain knowledge, however it
might be found. But, after going to five, and leaving each before
the year was out, he gave it up.
He determined to lay out the money that would have been
expended in a collegiate education in buying an Encyclop?dia, the
most complete that he could find, and to spend his life studying it
systematically. He would not content himself with merely reading
it, but he would study into each subject as it came up, and perfect
himself in that subject.
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