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He was now clean and neat in dress, and the shadows of fear and guilt which had begun to darken his young face were chased away. Power readily joined them in their stroll along the shore, and listened with affectionate sympathy to their account of Daubeny. "What is it that has made him ill?" he asked.
Cleaving the sky, Sun, moon, and stars forgot, Upwards I fly; Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee." And as he murmured to himself in a soothed tone of voice these verses, and lines of "Jerusalem the Golden," and "O for a closer walk with God," and "Rock of Ages," the wearied brain at last found repose, and Daubeny fell asleep.
This remark rather alarmed the master, and on the Sunday afternoon he asked the boy to come a walk with him, for the express purpose of endeavouring to persuade him to relax efforts which were obviously being made to the injury of his health. When they had once fairly reached the meadows by the riverside, Mr Percival said to him "You are overdoing it, Daubeny.
Daubeny, now on this Secretary of State and now on that; but they were felt by both parties to mean nothing; and as no great measure was brought forward, nothing which would serve by the magnitude of its interests to divide the liberal side of the House into fractions, Mr. Mildmay's Cabinet was allowed to hold its own in comparative peace and quiet.
As their wills were about equally strong, it would have ended in all of them accompanying Daubeny, had he not, when they reached him, positively refused to turn on such conditions, and suggested that they should decide it by drawing lots. Power wrote the names on slips of paper, and Walter drew one at hazard.
"Look after him when I am gone, Walter," said Daubeny sadly, when he had left the room. "He is a dear good fellow, but so easily led. Poor Flip; he's immensely changed for the better since you came, Walter." "I have been very fond of him all along," said Walter; "he is so full of laughter and fun, and he's very good with it all.
"Who's to be your tutor, Evson?" he asked after this interlude. "I suppose you're going to pick him to pieces, now," said Daubeny, smiling; "don't you believe half they say of him, Evson."
Nevertheless, the undaunted Daubeny would choose out the quietest and loneliest corner of the room, and with elbows on knees and hands over his ears to shut out the chaotic noises which surrounded him, would stay repeating the lines to himself with attention wholly concentrated and absorbed, until, after perhaps an hour's work, he knew enough of them to enable him to finish mastering them the next morning.
"We would have come before if we had known that we might see you," said the master. "How are you feeling, my dear boy?" "Not very well, sir; my head aches sadly sometimes, and I get so confused." "Ah, Daubeny, it's the overwork. Didn't I entreat you, my child, to slacken the bent bow a little? You'll be wiser in future, will you not?"
"Hush, you young gentlemen," said the nurse; "this'll never do; you oughtn't to have awoke Master Daubeny just as he was sleeping so nice." "Very sorry, nurse; good-night, Dubbs; hope you'll be all right to-morrow," said they, and then adjourned to Power's study. The gas was lighted in the pretty little room, and the matron, regarding them as heroes, had sent them a very tempting tea.
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