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He left school with an enviable reputation, and with the good wishes of his schoolmates and teachers. Paul was now sixteen years old, a stout, handsome boy, with a frank, open countenance, and a general air of health which formed quite a contrast to the appearance he presented when he left the hospitable mansion which Mr. Nicholas Mudge kept open at the public expense.
Mudge was delicately considerate and often said, 'that meat need not come up again, and purposely ordered more than she and Miss Everard could eat, but the butcher's bill and the milk bill were not paid so regularly as heretofore. Worse than privation, worse than debt, was the vain watching for inquiries and answers to her advertisement. What would become of her? Where could she go?
"Well, wife," he said, "I've brought you another boarder. You must try to make him as happy and contented as the rest of 'em are." From the tone of the speaker, the last words might be understood to be jocular. Mrs. Mudge, whose style of beauty was not improved by a decided squint, fixed a scrutinizing gaze upon Paul, and he quite naturally returned it. "Haven't you ever seen anybody before, boy?
Mechanically he did as the rest, carrying to his mouth a spoonful of the liquid. But his appetite was not sufficiently accustomed to Poor House regime to enable him to relish its standing dish, and he laid down his spoon with a disappointed look. He next attacked the crust of bread, but found it too dry to be palatable. "Please, ma'am," said he to Mrs. Mudge, "I should like some butter."
Finally, it was admitted in the report of Messrs. Featherstonhaugh and Mudge that the terms highlands and height of land are identical. The decision of the King of the Netherlands, to which Great Britain gave her assent in the first instance, recognizes the correctness of the views entertained in the American statements.
Mudge presently overtook her and drew her arm into his own with a quiet force that expressed the serenity of possession; in consonance with which it was only when they parted for the night at her door that he referred again to what she had told him. "Have you seen him since?" "Since the night in the Park? No, not once." "Oh, what a cad!" said Mr. Mudge.
John occupies the keystone. In a country of this character any line whatever would present the appearance of a succession of eminences, and might by as liberal a construction of the term as has been made by Messrs. Mudge and Featherstonhaugh be called highlands. The sameness of this general character is broken only by a single chain of hills.
It was not the main truth perhaps that most signified; but after her momentary effort, her embarrassment and her tears Mrs. Jordan had begun to sound afresh and even without speaking the note of a social connexion. She hadn't really let go of it that she was marrying into society. Well, it was a harmless compensation, and it was all the prospective bride of Mr. Mudge had to leave with her.
"Yes, well and happy," said Ben, who treated the old lady, for whom he had much respect, very differently from Mrs. Mudge. "I'm truly thankful for that," said Aunt Lucy; "I've laid awake more than one night thinking of him." "So has Mrs. Mudge, I'm thinking," said Ben, slyly. Aunt Lucy laughed. "There isn't much love lost between them," said Aunt Lucy, smiling.
"It's often misfortune that drives people to it, though," continued the old lady, looking keenly at Mrs. Mudge. "I have known cases where they didn't have that excuse." Mrs. Mudge colored. "Go back to your room," said she, sharply; "and don't stay here accusing me and Mr. Mudge of unchristian conduct.
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