I may as well give my week’s routine here, as nothing much happened to-day. Every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, I have to get up at 7.40, breakfast at 8, during which I generally study, leave at 8.30 for school at 9, history, then English, then maths, then free time for three quarters of an hour each, till lunch at twelve, play from 12.15 till 12.45, then Latin, Irish, German, home at 3.45, dinner till 4.30, piano till 6, violin ((Aloys studied the violin with William Brady at the School of Music.)) till 6.10. Tea till 6.45, lessons and exercises till 9.45 or 10, supper and bed. Any play after dinner is got by taking a few minutes off each of my tasks. On Wednesdays I have Irish, Elocution and History for an hour each, French when I come home at 12.30 from Fräulein Engelmann, and, if I can get my comp. [i.e. essay] and lessons finished in time, I may get two hours off to go to Markie or Arthur. On Saturdays I have Harmony ((Aloys studied harmony with his father.)) also, and generally get only two hours free on Sunday. Comps. twice a week.
