The sensations with which he woke next morning were such as he had not experienced for a long time.

He was at liberty,--with six pounds ten in his pocket.

He could do what he liked and go whither he liked,--till lack of a dinner should remind him that a man's hardest master is his own body.

He dressed leisurely, and, having dressed, treated himself to an egg for breakfast.

Absolutely no need for hurry; the thought of school-hours dismissed for ever; a horizon quite free from the vision of hateful toil; in the real sky overhead a gleam of real sunshine, as if to make credible this sudden change.