But as the time at which I am expected there, left me ample leisure, I determined to walk instead.

How glad I am, to think I did so!' 'How glad should we be!' 'Yes, yes,' said the schoolmaster, moving restlessly in his chair, 'certainly, that's very true.

But you--where are you going, where are you coming from, what have you been doing since you left me, what had you been doing before?
Now, tell me--do tell me.

I know very little of the world, and perhaps you are better fitted to advise me in its affairs than I am qualified to give advice to you; but I am very sincere, and I have a reason (you have not forgotten it) for loving you.

I have felt since that time as if my love for him who died, had been transferred to you who stood beside his bed.