Wilfrid was too noble-minded to complain to his young lord of this
treatment, although he felt it deeply. It required all his firmness
and forbearance to endure it patiently; but he remembered the words of
King Athelstane--"that his future fortunes depended upon his own
conduct;" and he resolved, under all circumstances, to persevere in the
path of duty; and, if possible, by his own virtues to blot out the
remembrance of his father's fault. He was also duly impressed with a
grateful sense of the king's goodness in extending to him the
advantages of a liberal and courtly education; of which he wisely
determined to make the most he could. By unremitting exertions, he
soon made so rapid a progress in his studies that he outstripped all
his fellow-students; and, though the youngest boy in the college, he
obtained the highest place of all, except the seat of honor, which his
partial preceptors allowed Prince Edwin to retain.
Prince Edwin loved Wilfrid, and took real pleasure in witnessing his
repeated triumphs over those who regarded him with such unkindly
feelings.
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