"You will like us better presently, Louis," added he, shaking hands with him: "my subjects appear to consider themselves privileged to be rude to a new-comer; but my royal example will have its weight in due time." "Your majesty's faithful trumpeter, grand vizier, and factotum is alive and hearty," said Frank.
"But as he had a selfish fit upon him just now," returned Hamilton, "we were under the necessity of doing our own business." "I crave your majesty's pardon," said Frank, stroking his sovereign tenderly on the shoulder; for which affectionate demonstration he was rewarded by a violent push that laid him prostrate.
"I am a martyr to my own benevolence," said Frank, getting up and approaching Louis, "still I am unchanged in devotion to your ladyship.
Tell me what I can do,"-- and whichever way Louis turned, Frank with his smirking face presented himself;--"Will you not give your poor slave one command ?" "Only that you will stand out of my sunshine," said Louis good-temperedly.
"Very good," exclaimed Hamilton.
"Out of your sunshine! What, behind you?
that is cruel, but most obsequiously I obey." Louis underwent the ordeal of a new scholar's introduction with unruffled temper, though his cousin took care there should be little cessation until afternoon school, when Louis was liberated from his tormentors to his great satisfaction--Frank's business carrying him to a part of the school-room away from that where Louis was desired to await further orders.

In the course of the afternoon, he was summoned to the presence of Dr.Wilkinson, who was holding a magisterial levee in one of two class-rooms or studies adjoining the school-room.

The doctor appeared in one of his sternest humors.

Besides the fourteen members of the first class, whose names Louis knew already, there was in this room a boy about Louis' age, who seemed in some little trepidation.

Doctor Wilkinson closed the book he held, and laying it down, dismissed his pupils; then turning to the frightened-looking boy, he took a new book off the table, saying, "Do you know this, Harrison ?" "Yes, sir," faintly replied the boy.
"Where did you get it ?" "I bought it." "To assist you in winning prizes from your more honorable class-fellows, I suppose," said the doctor, with the most marked contempt.