"Hey! what! Louis! Is this the way you are going to cheat your masters ?" "Pray don't think it ?" said Louis, eagerly.
"If you use keys, I have done with you." "Indeed I did not,--I never do,--I wasn't going.

One of the boys left it here.

I am sure I did not mean to do so," cried Louis in great confusion.
"Put it back," said Hamilton, gravely, "and then I will go over your lessons with you, and see if I can make you understand them better." "Thank you, thank you,--how kind you are!" said poor Louis, who hastily put the dangerous book away, and then sat down.
Hamilton smiled, and remarked, "It is but fair that one should be assisted who loses his character in playing knight errant for all those who need, or fancy they need, his good services: but, Louis, you are very wrong to give up so much of your time to others; your time does not belong to yourself; your father did not send you here to assist Dr.Wilkinson--or, rather, I should say, to save a set of idle boys the trouble of doing their own work.

There is a vast difference between weakness and good-nature; but now to business." Trevannion withdrew with a book to the window, and Hamilton sat down by Louis, and took great pains to make him give his mind to his business; and so thoroughly did he succeed with his docile pupil, that, although he had come in rather late, all, with the exception of the imposition, was ready for Mr.Danby by the time the dinner-bell rang.
Louis overwhelmed Hamilton with the expression of his gratitude, and again and again laid his little hand on that of his self-instituted tutor.

Hamilton did not withdraw his hand, though he never returned the pressure, nor made any reply to Louis' thanks, further than an abrupt admonition from time to time to "mind what he was about," and to "go on." Several inquiries were made at the open window after Louis, but all were answered by Trevannion, and our hero was left undisturbed to his studies.
That evening Louis had the satisfaction of being seated near his friend Hamilton, who, with a good-natured air of authority, kept him steadily at work until his business was properly concluded.