No reply was made.
"I am the only one who has any thing to forgive; please promise me to leave him alone." "Then," said Salisbury, abruptly, "whenever he comes in, I walk out, for I can't sit in the same room and be civil.
"I shan't be particularly inclined to favor him with my discourse," said Frank; "so I promise to leave him alone." "Will you try to be the same as you were before?
Do!" said Louis.
"That's impossible!" they all cried; "we _cannot_, Louis." "If you only knew how unhappy he has been, you would pity him very much," said Louis, sorrowfully.

"He has been so very sad--and do not talk of this to other people, please.

I should be so much more happy if you would try to be the same to him." "All we can promise, is not to notice it, Louis," said Hamilton; "and now, don't be sad any longer." Yet Louis was sad and anxious; though now and then a thought that all was clear, darted like a sunbeam across his mind, and called forth a grateful emotion.

He longed for the holidays to come,--the favor he was in was almost painful.
Ferrers was invisible till the next evening, when he joined his class-fellows at prayers.

In spite of the half-promise Louis had obtained from them, a studied unconsciousness of his presence, and a chilling coldness, greeted him.