, with Beatrice , his appendix burstburst, probably from too many meals in bed , and after a series of frantic telegrams to Europe and America , to the amazementamazementof the passengers the great ship slowly wheeledwheelaround and returnedreturnto New York to deposit Amory at the pier .
He sentsendme to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old , where I resided three years , and applied myself close to my studies ; but the charge of maintaining me , although I had a very scanty allowance , being too great for a narrow fortune , I was boundbindapprentice to Mr. James Bates , an eminent surgeon in London , with whom I continued four years .