CHAPTER XXX: SENTENCE

"I have hope to live, and am prepared to die."

Measure for Measure.

Ralph was bidden to be ready to take his young master home early the next morning. At eight o'clock the boy, who had slept with his father, came down the stair, clinging to his father's hand, and Miss Woodford coming closely with him.

"Yes," said Charles, as he held the little fair fellow in his arms, ere seating him on the horse, "he knows all, Ralph. He knows that his father did an evil thing, and that what we do in our youth finds us out later, and must be paid for. He has promised me to be a comfort to the old people, and to look on this lady as a mother. Nay, no more, Ralph; 'tis not good-bye to any of you yet. There, Phil, don't lug my head off, nor catch my hair in your buttons. Give my dutiful love to your grandmamma and to Aunt Nutley, and be a good boy to them."

"And when I come to see you again I'll bring another salad," quoth Philip, as he rode out of the court; and his father, by way of excusing a contortion of features, smoothed the entangled lock of hair, and muttered something about, "This comes of not wearing a periwig." Then he said--

"And to think that I have wasted the company of such a boy as that, all his life except for this mere glimpse!"

"Oh! you will come back to him," was all that could be said.

1. What is the aunt's name?
2. What should the boy give her?
3. Who else should he do that for?
4. What was his name?
5. What was his father's name?
6. What did he say when the boy left?
7. What form of transportation did the boy use?
8. Who had he slept with?
9. What did someone promise to do?
10. What was someone prepared to do?
11. Did they still wish to live?
12. Who came close to the boy?
13. Who put the boy up on the horse?
14. Who did a bad thing?
15. Does the boy know about it?
16. Does he know there will be consequences later?
17. What has he promised to see the lady as?
18. What did Charles tell Phil not to do while he was putting him on the horse?
19. Yes, and what else?
20. What time did the boy and his dad come down the stairs?
1. Nutley
2. my dutiful love
3. grandmamma
4. Phil
5. Charles
6. And to think that I have wasted the company of such a boy as that, all his life except for this mere glimpse
7. horse
8. his father
9. Phillip promised to be a comfort to the old people, and to look on this lady as a mother.
10. die
11. yes
12. Miss Woodford
13. Charles
14. his father
15. yes
16. yes
17. mother
18. don't lug my head off
19. catch my hair in your buttons
20. eight o'clock