Couldn't you go with me ?" Herbert shook his head.
"Father has a plan for me," he said.

"I am to learn his trade, and shall commence next week.

I don't particularly like it, but it is well to have a trade to fall back upon." "Mr.Manning wanted me to learn a trade." "There is no occasion for your doing so." "I don't know about that.

If I had a particular fancy for any, I wouldn't mind choosing it, but I am better suited for something else." "What is your plan?
What will you do first ?" "My father has a cousin in the city of Newark, New Jersey, only a few miles from New York.

Four years ago, he and his family made us a visit, and he was urgent then that we should return the visit.