You need not give me an answer now.

Think it over for a week.

You will have plenty of time, for Mr.Hudson insists upon your taking up your abode with him, when you land." "That I do," Mr.Hudson said.

"I have a place a mile out of Sydney, and there you will stop for a bit.

Then I hope you will go up the country with me, for a month or two, and learn the ways of the place; till Captain Wilson has got an appointment for you--that is, if you quite decide to accept his offer, instead of mine.