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Blackthorn, late school-master at Berryton, where the boys liked him for his bright and gentle yet very firm ways; the parents, for getting their children on, and helping them to be steady; and the clergyman, for being so perfectly to be trusted, so anxious to do right, and, while efficient and well informed, perfectly humble and free from conceit.
So Mr. Cope's kind manner came all the more pleasantly to him; and after some talk on what they both most cared about, Mr. Cope said, 'Paul, Mr. Shaw of Berryton tells me he has a capital school-master, but in rather weak health, and he wants to find a good intelligent youth to teach under him, and have opportunities of improving himself. Five pounds a year, and board and lodgings.
'Berryton oh! that's just four miles out on the other side of Elbury, where Susan Congleton went to live that was housemaid at the Grange. She says it's such a nice place, and such beautiful organ and singing at church! And what did you say you were to be, Paul? 'I'm to help the school-master. 'Gracious me! cried Ellen. 'Why, such a scholar as you are, you'll be quite a gentleman yet, Paul.
Paul, in his dreary feelings, hardly thought of Mr. Cope's plan, till, as he was getting the letters ready for Harold, he turned up one in Mr. Cope's writing, addressed to the 'Rev. A. Shaw, Berryton, Elbury. 'That's to settle for me, then, he said; and Harold who was at tea, asking, 'What's that? he explained. 'Well, said Harold, 'every one to his taste!
'What do you say, Harold? cried Ellen, putting her hands on the back of a chair, quite interested. 'You going away, Paul? 'Mr. Cope says so and I must get my living, you know, said Paul. 'But not yet; you are not well enough yet, said the kind girl. 'And where did you say ? 'To Berryton.
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