And then what would be the effect on his prospects?
On the people at Lewisburg?
On Hannah?
It is astonishing how much instruction and comfort there is in a bulldog.

This slender school-master, who had been all his life repressing the animal and developing the finer nature, now found a need of just what the bulldog had.

And so, with the thought of how his friend the dog would fight in a desperate strait, he determined to take hold of his difficulties as Bull took hold of the raccoon.

Moral questions he postponed for careful decision.

But for the present he set his teeth together in a desperate, bulldog fashion, and he set his feet down slowly, positively, bulldoggedly.