I shall be sorry to do this for your sake, and for the sake of his wife.

But I do not like such an example to the workmen and apprentices; and besides being away from the shop often disappoints a job." "I could not blame you, sir," Moreland said; "and yet, I do hope you will bear with him for the sake of Ellen.

I think if you would talk with him it would do him good." "But, why don't you talk to him, William ?" "I have talked to him frequently, but he has got so that he won't bear it any longer from me." "Nor would he bear it from me, either, I fear, William." Just at that moment the subject of the conversation came in.
"You are late this morning, Henry," said the owner of the shop to him, in the presence of the other workmen.
"It's only a few minutes past the time," was replied, moodily.
"It's more than an hour past." "Well, if it is, I can make it up." "That is not the right way, Henry.

Lost time is never made up." Thorne did not understand the general truth intended to be expressed, but supposed, at once, that the master of the shop meant to intimate that he would wrong him out of the lost hour, notwithstanding he had promised to make it up.

He therefore turned an angry look upon him, and said-- "Do you mean to say that I would cheat you, sir ?" The employer was a hasty man, and tenacious of his dignity as a master.