Question: CHAPTER XXV.

THE BANKER AND HIS DAUGHTER.

Tom and Elsley are safe at Whitbury at last; and Tom, ere he has seen his father, has packed Elsley safe away in lodgings with an old dame whom he can trust. Then he asks his way to his father's new abode; a small old-fashioned house, with low bay windows jutting out upon the narrow pavement.

Tom stops, and looks in the window. His father is sitting close to it, in his arm-chair, his hands upon his knees, his face lifted to the sunlight, with chin slightly outstretched, and his pale eyes feeling for the light. The expression would have been painful, but for its perfect sweetness and resignation. His countenance is not, perhaps, a strong one; but its delicacy, and calm, and the high forehead, and the long white locks, are most venerable. With a blind man's exquisite sense, he feels Tom's shadow fall on him, and starts, and calls him by name; for he has been expecting him, and thinking of nothing else all the morning, and takes for granted that it must be he.

In another moment Tom is at his father's side. What need to describe the sacred joy of those first few minutes, even if it were possible? But unrestrained tenderness between man and man, rare as it is, and, as it were, unaccustomed to itself, has no passionate fluency, no metaphor or poetry, such as man pours out to woman, and woman again to man. All its language lies in the tones, the looks, the little half-concealed gestures, hints which pass themselves off modestly in jest; and such was Tom's first interview with his father; till the old Isaac, having felt Tom's head and hands again and again, to be sure whether it were his very son or no, made him sit down by him, holding him still fast, and began-- 1. could his father see?
2. what was his dad sitting on?
3. Who is safe?
4. and?
5. where are they?
6. Who did he leave Elsey with?
7. Does his father have short hair?
8. What color is it?
9. How does he know Tom is there?
10. he is blind, so how does he sense Tom?
11. what is he sitting next to?
12. did Tom know where his dad's house is?
13. does his father live in a big home?
14. please describe it.
15. what is his dad's name?
16. how does he make sure it's his child?
17. does he trust the person he left Else with?
18. Is it possible to explain the happiness felt?
19. what kind of windows does the house have?
20. can the relationship be compare to a man to woman relationship? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. No.
2. His arm-chair.
3. Elsley.
4. Tom.
5. Whitbury.
6. An old dame.
7. No.
8. White.
9. He has been expecting him.
10. He feels Tom's shadow fall on him.
11. The window.
12. No.
13. No.
14. Small old-fashioned house.
15. Isaac.
16. Felt Tom's head and hands again and again.
17. Yes.
18. No.
19. Low bay windows.
20. No.

input: CHAPTER SIX.

JACK HAS A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER.

We never can tell what a day or an hour may bring forth. This is a solemn fact on which young and old might frequently ponder with advantage, and on which we might enlarge to an unlimited extent; but our space will not admit of moralising very much, therefore we beg the reader to moralise on that, for him--or herself. The subject is none the less important, that circumstances require that it should be touched on in a slight, almost flippant, manner.

Had Jack Robinson known what lay before him that evening, he would--he would have been a wiser man! Nothing more appropriate than that occurs to us at this moment. But, to be more particular:--

When the party reached the nets, Jack left them to attend to their work, and went off alone to the vats, some of which, measuring about six feet in diameter, were nearly full of fish in pickle.

As he walked along the slight track which guided him towards them, he pondered the circumstances in which he then found himself, and, indulging in a habit which he had acquired in his frequent and prolonged periods of solitude, began to mutter his thoughts aloud.

"So, so, Jack, you left your farm because you were tired of solitude, and now you find yourself in the midst of society. Pleasant society, truly!--bullies and geese, without a sympathetic mind to rub against. Humph! a pleasant fix you've got into, old fellow."

Jack was wrong in this to some extent, as he afterwards came to confess to himself, for among his men there were two or three minds worth cultivating, noble and shrewd, and deep, too, though not educated or refined. But at the time of which we write, Jack did not know this. He went on to soliloquise: 1. what is a fact?
2. who should the reader moralise this on?
3. Did Jack know what was to happen?
4. what if he did?
5. where did Jack leave?
6. why?
7. where did he go?
8. was it kind?
9. was he alone often before?
10. what would he do when alone?
11. what were in the vats?
12. were they large?
13. how big?
14. who was there?
15. was he with the party?
16. who was he with then?
17. what was the party doing?
18. where?
19. how many minds did he feel were worth cultivating?
20. were they educated? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. We never can tell what a day or an hour may bring forth.
2. him--or herself
3. no
4. would have been a wiser man
5. his farm
6. tired of solitude
7. society
8. yes
9. yes
10. mutter his thoughts aloud.
11. fish in pickle
12. yes
13. six feet in diameter
14. Jack
15. no
16. alone
17. attending to their work
18. the nets
19. two or three
20. no