CHAPTER VIII.
HOME.
Cosmo was not particularly fond of school, and he was particularly fond of holidays; hence his father's resolve that he should go to school no more, seemed to him the promise of an endless joy.

The very sun seemed swelling in his heart as he walked home with his father.

A whole day of home and its pleasures was before him--only the more welcome that he had had a holiday so lately, and that so many more lay behind it.

Every shadow about the old place was a delight to him.

Never human being loved more the things into which he had been born than did Cosmo.