I say nothing of the grief to your mother and me." "I'm very sorry; but what can I do?
I can't study--that's certain," said Rex.
"Not just now, perhaps.

You will have to miss a term.

I have made arrangements for you--how you are to spend the next two months.

But I confess I am disappointed in you, Rex.

I thought you had more sense than to take up such ideas--to suppose that because you have fallen into a very common trouble, such as most men have to go through, you are loosened from all bonds of duty--just as if your brain had softened and you were no longer a responsible being." What could Rex say?
Inwardly he was in a state of rebellion, but he had no arguments to meet his father's; and while he was feeling, in spite of any thing that might be said, that he should like to go off to "the colonies" to-morrow, it lay in a deep fold of his consciousness that he ought to feel--if he had been a better fellow he would have felt--more about his old ties.