Be honest, and you will be happy.

You are yet a child; and though you have strayed from the right path, a stronger hand than your own has led you thence.

Return, I implore of you, to your master,--to Mr.Wood.Acknowledge your faults.

He is all kindness, and will overlook them for your poor father's sake--for mine.
Return to him, I say--" "I can't," replied Jack, doggedly.
"Can't!" repeated his mother.

"Why not ?" "_I'll_ tell you," cried a deep voice from the back of the bed.