I shall be guided by him,--but there must, of course, be delay.

There will be settlements and I know not what.

It may probably be in the spring,--or perhaps the summer.

I shall do just what my betters tell me to do." Phineas had now seated himself on the exact stone on which he had wished her to sit when he proposed to tell his own story, and was looking forth upon the lake.

It seemed to him that everything had been changed for him while he had been up there upon the mountain, and that the change had been marvellous in its nature.