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"There is one thing, at any rate, you have learned at Harton," said the other, with a smile, "and that is to speak up boldly, and to speak out plainly. I was a friend of your poor father's, and shall be glad to help you, since you are reasonable and see matters in their right light. But you must not expect much." So Harry was taken into the office as a clerk just for a month on trial.
He came with some hesitation, he went on, to the fact that he had been further instructed to ask me to relinquish my lease on Sunnyside, as it was Mrs. Armstrong's desire to come directly there. I was aghast. "Here!" I said. "Surely you are mistaken, Mr. Harton. I should think, after what happened here only a few days ago, she would never wish to come back."
Julian had a peculiar reason for longing to gain it, because, with his Harton scholarship, it would not only enable him at once to enter his name as a pensioner, instead of a sizar, at Saint Werner's, but even make him independent of all help from his family and guardians.
He told Kennedy old Harton stories, and asked him about Marlby; he turned the subject to Home, and really interested Kennedy by telling him what kind of a boy Julian had been, and what inseparable friends he had always been with Lillyston, and how admirably he had recited on speech-day, and how stainless his whole life had been, and how vice and temptation seemed to skulk away at his very look.
I am sure that you personally will be glad of any opportunity to help an old school-fellow in his distress and difficulty, for report tells me that Julian Home is as kind-hearted and generous as he was when he won the Newry scholarship at Harton. Believe me to be, my dear Home, yours very truly, WALTER THORNLEY."
The banana-tree, which is seen in the plantations near the town, is not the great Platano harton; but the varieties camburi and dominico, which require less heat. The great plantains are brought to the market of Caracas from the haciendas of Turiamo, situated on the coast between Burburata and Porto Cabello.
The morning meal which, in the host's case, consisted of a game-pie and a tankard of strong ale having been here dispatched, and their cigars lighted, Parson Whymper began as follows: "It must have been in the autumn of 1821 that Carew finally left school the public school of Harton.
"Better open it and read it to me," I suggested. "If it is important, that will save time." There was a pause while Mr. Harton opened the telegram. Then he read it slowly, judicially. "'Watch for Nina Carrington. Home Monday. Signed F. L. W." "Hum!" I said. "'Watch for Nina Carrington. Home Monday. Very well, Mr. Harton, I will tell her, but she is not in condition to watch for any one."
"Oh, dear me! my lady, all in black?" said Micheline, pointing to the tight-fitting black satin worn by the English beauty. "Yes, my dear Princess; mourning," replied Lady Harton, with a vigorous shake of the hands. "Ball-room mourning one of my best partners; gentlemen, you know Harry Tornwall?" "Countess Alberti's cavalier?" added Serge. "Well?" "Well! he has just killed himself."
He had not been able to afford a private tutor during the term, with whom he might have discussed the papers, but he sent his Iambics and Latin verse to Mr Carden at Harton, who wrote back a most favourable and encouraging judgment of them, and seemed to regard Julian's success as certain.
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