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Quote #7
There were certain new furnishings, and Paul had a tutor. He was really going to Eton, his father's school, in the following autumn. (181)
Paul is being prepared for manhood, following in his father's gentlemanly footsteps.
Quote #8
Since he was emancipated from a nurse and a nursery governess, he had had his rocking horse removed to his own bedroom at the top of the house. (203)
Paul refuses to grow up, and secretly holds on to his rocking horse.
Quote #9
"Surely, you're too big for a rocking horse!" his mother had remonstrated.
"Well, you see, Mother, till I can have a real horse, I like to have some sort of animal about." (204-5)
Paul deflects his mother's concerns by making the rocking horse appear as a substitute for the real horse that he will have as an adult.