"I hope you may do well, in the new land you are going to." So saying, she went on her errand.

Reuben stood watching her, until she entered one of the cottages.

Then, putting on his cap, he returned to the schoolmaster's.
A week later Reuben was wandering along the side of the London Docks, looking at the vessels lying there, and somewhat confused at the noise and bustle of loading and unloading that was going on.

He had come up the night before by the carrier's waggon, and had slept at the inn where it stopped.

His parting with his mother had been a very sad one, but Mrs.Whitney had so far come round as to own that she thought that his plan was perhaps the best; although she still maintained that she should never venture, herself, upon so distant a journey.