Excerpt from Sanna: A NovelThis was the origin of the famous Beauchamp School, which the marquis endowed with five thousand livres, to which he bequeathed his portrait in oils and many of his books, and in which he exacted that the teaching of the French language' be obligatory. Nor was any man to be considered qualified for the position of master unless he were able to speak the language ¿uently, Write it with ease, and be conversant with its literature.The marquis's host was made the first trustee, and the responsibilities of that office had descended from father to son to the third generation - eldest son to eldest son. The last master, long a fixture, had but recently died, and young John Terrence, returning after four years of foreign travel and study to the Island home of his fathers, found himself unexpectedly con fronted with the necessity of finding some one suitable to fill the vacancy before the opening of the fall term.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.