You don't know how Mr.Lofton has failed since Mark went away," added Jenny in a tone meant to reach the feelings of her auditor.
"He looks many years older.

Ah, sir, if you would only grant my request!" "Will the young man return to his family! Have you spoken to him about it ?" "No; I wished not to create hopes that might fail.

But give me his release, and I will have a claim on him." "And you will require him to go home in acknowledgment of that claim." "I will not leave him till he goes back," said Jenny.
"Is he not satisfied in the service ?" "How could he be satisfied with it ?" Jenny spoke with a quick impulse, and with something like rebuke in her voice.

"No! It is crushing out his very life.

Think of your own son in such a position!" There was something in this appeal, and in the way it was uttered, that decided the Secretary's mind.