I'm getting to be a man now, and mustn't go on showin' the weaknesses of a boy.

In the second, or third place,--I forget which, but no matter,--I am going with Henry, because I could not go with a better man; and in the fourth--if it's not the fifth--place, I'm going because Uncle Ole Thorwald has long wished me to go to sea; and, to tell you the truth, I would have gone long ago had it not been for you, Alice.
There's only one thing that bothers me." Here Corrie looked at his fair companion with a perplexed air.
"What is that ?" asked Alice, sympathetically.
"It is that I must go without saying good-by to Uncle Ole.

I am _very_ sorry about it.

It will look so ungrateful to him; but it _can't_ be helped." "Why not ?" inquired Alice.

"If he has often said he wished you to go sea, would he not be delighted to hear that you are going ?" "Yes; but he must not know that I am going to-night, and with Henry Stuart." "Why not ?" "Ah! that's the point.