At this moment he was reading Greek with his daughter, or rather rebuking her because she could not be induced to read Greek.
"Oh, papa," the poor girl said, "don't scold me now.

I am so unhappy because of all this." "And am not I unhappy ?" he said, as he closed the book.

"My God, what have I done against thee, that my lines should be cast in such terrible places ?" The letter was sent to Mr.Walker.

"He knows himself to be innocent," said the poor wife, writing what best excuse she knew how to make, "and thinks that he should take no step himself in such a matter.

He will not employ a lawyer, and he says that he should prefer that he should be sent for, if the law requires his presence at Silverbridge on Thursday." All this she wrote, as though she felt that she ought to employ a high tone in defending her husband's purpose; but she broke down altogether in the few words of the postscript.