He was a coarse, wicked-looking boy, who, it was plain, had not yet fully awakened to a realizing sense of the good fortune that awaited him.
A resolute opposition was made by Wallingford, but all the evidence adduced to prove Leon Garcia's relationship to Mrs.Allen was too clear, and so the court dismissed the case, and appointed Ralph Dewey as guardian to the boy, who was immediately placed at school in a neighboring town.
So ended this long season of suspense.

Immediately on the decision of the case, Wallingford went to Boston to see Mrs.Montgomery, and remained absent nearly a week.

I saw him soon after his return.
"How did she bear this final dashing of her hopes to the earth ?" I asked.
"As any one who knew her well might have expected," he answered, with so little apparent feeling that I thought him indifferent.
"As a Christian philosopher," said I.
"You make use of exactly the right words," he remarked.

"Yes, as a Christian philosopher.

As one who thinks and reasons as well as feels.