now you q v to say to i want my son to be a xv ma may leave the rest to him the mill on mr paused a moment while mi somewhat reassured as to was inwardly to an imaginary mr the statement i want my son to know you see my dear mr continued when you get a thoroughly educated man like he s at no loss to take up any branch of instruction when a workman knows the use of his tools he can make a door as well as a window ay that s true said mr almost convinced now that the clergy must be the best of well i ll teu you what i u do for you said mr and i wouldn t do it for every body i ll see s father in law or drop him a line when i get back to to say that you wish to place your boy with his son in law and i dare say will write to you and send you his terms but there s no hurry is there said mrs for i hope mr you won t let tom begin at his new school before he began at the at the quarter and you see what good s come of it ay ay never wi bad day else you ll have a poor tap said mr and smiling at mr with the natural pride of a man who has a wife his inferior in intellect but it s true there s no hurry you ve hit it there it might be as well not to the arrangement too long said mr quietly for may have from other parties and i know he would not take more than two or three if so many if i were you i think i would enter on the subject with at once there s no necessity of sending the boy before but i would be on the safe side and make sure that nobody you ay there s in that said mr father broke in who had stolen to her father s elbow again listening with parted lips while she held her doll and crushed its nose against the wood of the chair � father is it a long way off where tom is to go sha n t we ever go to see him i don t know my said the father tenderly ask mr he knows came round promptly in front of mr and said how far is it please sir oh a long long way off that gentleman answered being of opinion that children when they are not naughty should always be spoken to you must borrow the boots to get to him thb mill on the that s nonsense said tossing her head and turning away with the tears springing in her eyes she began to dislike mr it was evident he thought her silly and of no consequence hush for shame of you asking questions and chattering said her mother come and sit down on your uttle stool and hold your tongue do but added mrs who had her own alarm awakened is it so far off as i couldn t wash him and mend him about fifteen miles that s all said mr you can drive there and back in a day quite comfortably x r � is a hospitable pleasant man he d be glad to have you stay but it s too far off for the linen i doubt said mrs sadly the entrance of supper this difficulty and relieved mr from the labor of suggesting some solution or compromise � a labor which he otherwise doubtless have undertaken for as you perceive he was a man of very obliging manners and he had really given himself the trouble of mr to his friend without any positive expectation of a solid definite advantage to himself notwithstanding the subtle indications to the contrary which might have a too sagacious observer for there is nothing more widely than sagacity if it happens to get on a wrong scent and sagacity persuaded that men usually act and speak from motives with a proposed end in view is certain to waste its energies on imaginary game and deliberate contrivance in order to compass a selfish end are nowhere abundant but in the world of the they demand too intense a mental action for many of our to be guilty of them it is easy enough to spoil the lives of our neighbors without taking so much trouble ve can do it by lazy acquiescence and lazy by trivial for we hardly know a reason by small by small by and we live from hand to mouth most of us with a small family of desires � we do little else than snatch a morsel to the hungry brood rarely thinking of seed corn or the next year s crop mr was a man of business and not cold toward his own interest yet even he was more the influence of small than of far sighted designs he had no private understanding with the rev walter � ou xi ic r he very uttle of that m a and � thb hill on tke not quite enough perhaps to warrant so strong a recommendation of him as he had given to his friend but he believed mr to be an excellent classic for had said so and s first cousin was an oxford which was better ground for the belief even than his own immediate observation would have been for though mr had received a of the at the great and had a sense of understanding latin generally his comprehension of any particular latin was not ready doubtless there remained a subtle from his contact with the j e and the fourth book of the j but it had ceased to be distinctly as classical and was only perceived in the higher finish and force 