Nobody knows and nobody cares about him as it is; but he is a determined young fellow, or I'm mistaken.

Better keep him at work under your own eye, and make the place too hot for him by degrees.

Before long you will catch him poaching with his dog, and if he is let off for a time or two because of his youth, and goes at it again, we can make out a pretty case of juvenile depravity, without any character from his employer, you know; and so he will be sent out of the way, and boarded at the expense of the country for a few years or so.' 'Well,' said the master, 'I'll try him once again.

If he'd go out quietly, nobody else has any claim upon the cottage; and I want to set to work there quickly.' So when Stephen entered the office with trembling limbs and a very pale face under its dusky covering, it happened that he met with a very different reception to what he expected.

The master sat behind a small counter, upon which lay Stephen's twelve shillings, the only little heap of money left; and as he gathered them nervously into his hand, he wondered if this would be the last time.