It was only yesterday he said to me that now he was no longer dissatisfied with your working at all sorts of studies, in leisure hours, since it made you none the worse man of business." "No, I hope not, or I should be much ashamed.

It would not be doing my duty to myself any more than to my master, if I shirked his work for my own.

I am glad he does not complain now, Phineas." "On the contrary; I think he intends to give you a rise this Midsummer.
But oh!" I cried, recurring to a thought which would often come when I looked at the lad, though he always combated it so strongly, that I often owned my prejudices were unjust: "how I wish you were something better than a clerk in a tan-yard.

I have a plan, John." But what that plan was, was fated to remain unrevealed.

Jael came to us in the garden, looking very serious.