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And although the lad studied, his father was always exhorting him to study more. His father was advanced in years, and too much toil had aged him before his time.
But the higher the lad continued to rise the lower the others fell; till at last, being puzzled to know how to take him off his feet, as their slander was not believed, they thought of leading him to disaster by the path of flattery, which they attempted in the following manner.
"You were right, Richard," said he; "your great world is a hard world for those in the shadow of it. I see now that it must not be entered from below, but from the cabin window. A man may climb around it, lad, and when he is above may scourge it." "And you will scourge it, captain!" I had no doubt of his ability one day to do it. "Ay, and snap my fingers at it.
Then he turned its head again and rode a few yards up and down the deck once more. "Well done, my lad," cried the skipper, coming to his side. "You will do it. Go on." "How deep is the water here?" said Denis eagerly. "About a fathom. Plenty of room for you to swim."
The Earl took it in his hand, turned it this way and that, looked first at the bearer, then at the packet, and then at the bearer again. "Who art thou?" said he; "and what is the matter thou wouldst have of me?" "I am Myles Falworth," said the lad, in a low voice; "and I come seeking service with you." The Earl drew his thick eyebrows quickly together, and shot a keen look at the lad.
Suddenly, by a whimsical sequence of suggestion, the pleasure he felt in the sunshine of February as it reached him under the tree in Boston Common, vividly called to mind the refreshing coolness of the shade of the elms, in full leaf, as he, a little lad of six, had walked the streets of old Stoke-Newington for the first time.
I am not rich, I will take two persons on the spot. There is the lad whom you took into your kitchen; I invited him to come to my house, and he did not come. Were there ten times as many, let us divide them among us. Do you take some, and I will take some. We will work together. He will see how I work, and he will learn.
'Oh, very well then, my lad, said I, 'since you will not accompany me, here I go alone. You will see me in the morning; and advancing to the edge of the cliff upon which we had been standing, I proceeded to lower myself down by the tangled roots which clustered about all the crevices of the rock.
The sharp eyes of the hunter and the trapper saw at once in his pallid face and exaggerated manner that something unusual had happened, but they pretended to take no notice. "Did you see any sheep?" asked Boyd. "Yes," replied the lad, "I had a splendid view of a grand ram, standing high on a jutting stone over the great valley." "What became of him?" "I don't know.
She presented the letter, and telling him that she had only received it on the previous evening, begged him to read it to her. He at once recognised the handwriting of his pupil. "Ah, Widow O'Neill," he exclaimed, "I find by this that your son is away, and you must be prepared not to see him for some time. I scarcely like to say that the lad has acted wrongly in what he has done.
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