Stelling, Rev. Walter, M.A.

Curate at King's Lorton; Tom Tulliver and Philip Wakem's schoolmaster who does not find his purse equal to his style of living. "Mr. Stelling was a broadchested healthy man, with the bearing of a gentleman, a conviction that a growing boy required a sufficiency of beef, and a certain hearty kindness in him that made him like to see Tom looking well and enjoying his dinner; not a man of refined conscience, or with any deep sense of the infinite issues belonging to everyday duties; not quite com petent to his high offices ; but incompetent gentlemen must live, and without private fortune it is difficult to see how they could all live genteellyif they hadnothing to do with education or government."

<em>The Mill on the Floss</em>

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