Lord Frederick Leighton Leighton Flaming June painting

Lord Frederick Leighton Leighton Flaming June paintingRaphael La Belle Jardiniere paintingRaphael The Holy Family painting
a kipper on his plate. He sat there staring at it, not knowing where to begin. Then he cut into it, and got a mouthful of tiny bones. And after extracting them all, another mouthful, more bones. His fellow-pupils watched him suffer in silence; not one of them said, here, let me show you, you eat it in this way. It took him ninety minutes to eat the fish and he was not permitted to rise from the table until it was done. By that time he was shaking, and if he had been able to cry he would have done so. Then the thought occurred to him that he had been taught an important lesson. England was a peculiar-tasting smoked fish full of spikes and bones, and nobody would ever tell him how to eat it. He discovered that he was a bloody-minded person. "I'll show them all," he swore. "You see if I don't." The eaten kipper was his first victory, the first step in his conquest of England.
William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand.
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Five leaving school, waiting until the English university term began, and his transmutation into a Vilayeti was well