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Remember, I know more of school than you." The two boys strolled on silently. That night Eric knelt at his bedside, and prayed as he had not done for many a long day. "In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night." PROV. vii. 9. At Roslyn, even in summer, the hour for going to bed was half-past nine.
"He need never leave New York. I'll see that Father William has the entrée into the diocese, and I'll take care of him until he leaves for home." She tapped him on the shoulder with her jeweled finger, and gave him a most expressive look of assurance. "Oh, how you overwhelm me," cried Father Roslyn.
Wyatt as to his authority, he found that it was not from the King; and he afterwards discovered that the orders were given at Weymouth by the Queen, the late Earl of Roslyn being present. What was the state of His Majesty's health at that time is now a matter of historical curiosity; but this extraordinary proceeding deserves particular notice.
Williams held him firmly, and said in a calm voice, "I have just seen you treat one of your schoolfellows with the grossest violence. It makes me blush for you, Roslyn Boys," he continued, turning to the group that surrounded him, "that you can stand by unmoved, and see such things done.
He remembered that they would not have heard a syllable of or from him since he had run away from Roslyn, and he feared the effect of so sudden an emotion as his appearance at that hour might excite. So under the star-light he lay down to sleep on a cold bank beside the gate, determining to enter early in the morning.
He often told me before his last hour, that he rejoiced to have been at Roslyn; that he had experienced there much real happiness, and derived in every way lasting good. "I hope you have been enjoying your holidays, and that you will come back with the 'spell of home affection' alive in your heart. I shall rejoice to make Vernon's acquaintance, and will do for him all I can.
And I feel sure that if a lady of your rank took an interest in him, it would save him much labor, and, what I fear is unavoidable, hardship." Anne rose up delighted and came toward Father Roslyn with a smile. She placed her hand lightly on his shoulder. "Father dear, whisper." He bent forward. There was not a soul within hearing distance, but Anne loved a dramatic effect.
Many and many a scheme of sin and mischief, at Roslyn was suggested, planned, and carried out on the model of Bull's reminiscences of his previous life. He had tasted more largely of the tree of the knowledge of evil than any other boy, and strange to say, this was the secret why the general odium was never expressed.
He was just returning from a dinner-party, when the sight of two boys and the sound of their voices startled Mm in the street, and their sudden disappearance made him sure that they were Roslyn boys, particularly when they began to run.
"My dearest Eric I have got bad news to tell you, at least, I feel it to be bad news for me, and I flatter myself that you will feel it to be bad news for you. In short, I am going to leave Roslyn, and probably we shall never meet there again. The reason is, I have had a cadetship given me, and I am to sail for India in September.
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