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"Try and be like your name, my boy, and you will find me ready to forgive your scrapes; but you must always be a gentleman." "Amen to that," said the General, rising. "And now, my dear Mrs Burr, I will not say good-bye, but au revoir. Seaborough here tells me you are both going to stay in Hastings for a few days. I shall drive over and see you. Good-bye."
Eh? you were going to speak, Doctor." "Only a few words, sir. Colonel Seaborough, Mrs Burr, I cannot tell you how grieved I am for this painful episode believe me." My mother went to the Doctor and placed her hand in his. "Pray say no more," she said gently. "I will not, my dear madam, for your looks tell me that I am forgiven for my share of the mental agony I have caused you.
"A milksop; and that I must come and rough it among other boys." "Ha! ha! what a game! You will have to rough it too, here. I say, who's uncle?" "My uncle, Colonel Seaborough." "What's he? a soldier too?" "Yes; and I'm going to be a soldier by and by." "Well, you are a lucky one! Wish I had an uncle who said I should be a soldier. I shall have to be a doctor, I suppose."
Oh, I say!" Then, catching the old man's hand in both of his; he cried, "May I have a hunter?" "You shall, my boy. And Frank Burr, you shall have one too." "No," said my uncle, "that's my present. Frank, my lad, we've all been wrong; but I can't apologise, for you led us astray." "Oh, that's enough, Seaborough," cried the General. "The boys don't want to hear another word.
"Poor Tom," I said to myself, "I must throw you over for her sake;" and my lips parted to speak, when my uncle checked me by his stern, harsh voice. "Silent! The silence of guilt!" he cried bitterly. "I have " "Stop a moment, Seaborough," cried the General. "Let me have a word, for poor dead Burr's sake.
Doctor, will you bring your wife? Seaborough and Mrs Burr, pray come over with me now, and, if the Doctor does not mind, I should like to take these two boys back with us." Consent was given directly, and the rest of that day was spent in a manner which made me pretty well forget the troubles which had gone before.
Of course, you will take your son away and place him in another school?" "Eh? What for?" said the General sharply. "You don't want him to go, do you, stuffy boy?" "Oh no, sir," cried Mercer. "Do you want to go, Frank?" "No, sir," I said eagerly; "I should like to stay." "Of course," cried the General. "He's to stop, eh, Seaborough?" "I should regret it, if he left," said my uncle.
"A little one, sir, with a fancy face and two letters cut in a round spot on the back." "What letters were they?" said the General. "A Hee and a B, sir." "Eliezer Burr," said the Doctor loudly. "Hah!" and he took off his gold-rimmed spectacles, rubbed them, and began to beam. "Should you " began my uncle. "No, no, no, Seaborough; allow me," said the General. "My turn. I was coming to that.
One morning, soon after the last visit of Uncle Seaborough, Lomax came to the schoolroom door, just as Mr Hasnip was giving me a terrible bullying about the results of a problem in algebra, on to which he had hurried me before I had more than the faintest idea of the meaning of the rules I had been struggling through.
"Certainly, Colonel Seaborough," said the Doctor rather nervously, but he spoke firmly directly after. "I thought it my duty first to ask you to come, as I naturally was most loth to proceed to extremities." "Naturally, sir, naturally," said my uncle sharply. "A prisoner's allowed a fair court-martial, eh, Rye?"
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