Do you want, this morning, to take up the reading ?" "I had as well, I suppose." "If you go to Edinburgh--if you do as your father wishes and apply yourself to the law--you will need to read well and to speak well.

You do not do badly, but not well enough.

So, let's begin!" He put out his hand and drew from the bookshelf a volume bearing the title, _The Treasury of Orators_.

"Try what you please." Alexander took the book and moved to the unoccupied window.

Here he half sat, half stood, the morning light flowing in upon him.