Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-30
CHAPTER ".
BREAKFAST TINE.

Out of his bed rose Cuthbert to the tune OF
the school bell, swung by the man who
cleaned the boots and thrived on pocket
money errands to the destruction of youthful
digestions
His own mild hint yesterday, by which he
had hoped to put his father off from graphing
questions, had stirred him into perception of
new sympathies in his nature With thoughts
of his wife, and the secret to be divulged be-
fore another night should come. had mingled
impulses of freedom, a yearning for the
shows and struggles of an outer world,
and q placid weariness of spirit, when the
school room rose in his eyes, with the tasks
to be set and the ignorance to be corrected
His resolution to proclaim his secret was
quickening spirit in the soil of his mind,
terminating seeds thero which he himself
knew not of.
"Why need fear my fathers angerl" he
thought. as he threw open his bedroom win
dow, and stood in stream of sweet warm
wind fresh from the blue water; II have
served him dutifully, and will yet justify all
his fine thoughts of his calling by sticking to
it, if he will love Jenny, and bear with me
for marrying her. If not the world is big
enough to find me work, surely! What l am
fitted for shall not trouble me; but what l
can get to do, III do"
This honest soliloquy done, he betook him
self to dressing.
Never looking glass gave back hand
somer face than that into which he glanced.
Such a picture of dark auburn hair, white
brow and blue eyes, bright with mind, as
would set heartless beauty dreaming like
faithful sweetheart
And now for the days dry work, the first
stage of which was the meeting of the boys
in the schoolroom, to await, amid cracking
of yawns and restless shuffling Of feet, the
arrival of DR.. Shaw in that academic gown
of his, which he donned only to read the
morning prayers in or to birch boy.
Between prayer time and breakfast time
there was half hour, to employ which
proftably to his spirits, that stood sorely in
need Of regenerating influences, and also to
escape his fathers eyes, the twist Of which,
when they all got off their knees he did not
relish, Cuthbert went into the fields before
the house; and so, through the giorifying
sunshine and the narrow footway in the
barley, down to the short grass of the cliff
edge, on the swell of which he stood within a
fathom Of the sheer fall
A scene of summer beauty and morning
splendor was this he overlooked.
But Cuthbert was toiling with giant in
his mind, and nature was only blue and
green to him; for there is nothing dainty to
a troubled mind but ease, and this our young
friend could not get, neither by sitting nor
by standing.
But no use standing moodily conjecturing
trouble So back again to the school house
through the crops, which went whispering to
the passage of the wind, as though they had
snatched secret from it
To the ushers-ths old-fashioned term is
very meaning-was conceded the privilege
of breakfasting with the boys. But Cuth-
bert would have been glad to exchange
places with any one of them that morning,
so little fancy had he for tete-a-tete with
his father
1t was his duty. however, to be in the room
when the boys assembled, and observe that
grace was duly said by one of the masters,
and deliver the order for the boys to fall to.
Under the clock he stood, punctual to the
hour. and in a hungry swarm the boys
tumbed in.
Grace having been said by a bachelor OF
arts, and the order to begin given, out sprang
forty hands from under the tables and the
pyramids lost their form and substance.
Then Master Cuthbert, with a pleasant
smile around him, left the room.
Old Dr. Shaw, with his legs crossed, and