A Modern Instance

obes. The half-grown boy did not wake easily; he conceived of the affair as a joke, and bade Bartley quit his fooling, till the young man took him by his collar, and stoo

ence, and, having put a fresh pine-root on the fire, fell into a doze, with his lantern in his hand. "Look here, young man!" said

and the table in the middle of the room, with the chairs huddled around it, was suggestive, though he knew that it had been barrenly put there for the convenience of the landlord's friends, who came every night to play whist with him, and that nothing to eat or drink had ever been set out on it to interrupt the austere interest of the game. It was long since there had been anything on the shelves behind the count

etic tone of injury, "can't you

in the buttery but me

and the hungry man hesitated. "Well, fetch it," he said, fin

he pine-root. The boy silently transferred the half-pie he had brought from its plate to the shovel. He pulled up a chair and sat down to watch it. The pie began to steam and send out a savory odor; he himself, in thawing, emitted a stronger and stronger smell of stable. He was not without his disdain for the palate which must have its mince-pie warm at midnight,-nor without his respect

cold tea or coffee anywhere, that we could warm u

; and, after he had let the dispiriting suggestion s

e again, and had drawn his chair up to the table. "Thanks," he said, with his mouth full, as the boy set down the goblet of milk. Andy pulled his chair round so as to get an unrestricted

satisfaction, and resolved in his hear

t as time," co

on. "Bring you anything else?" he asked, admiring the young man's skill in

ith the plaintive dismay of a man who fears he has flung away h

" replie

. "I suppose I could toast a piece on t

te and goblet, and brough

was done, he ate it as he had eaten the pie, without offering to share his feast with the boy. "There'" he said. "Yes, Andy, if she keeps

, Mr. Hubbard?"

ng man consented. "I suppo

n of the girl. He lolled his head on one side in such comfort as a young man finds in the conviction that a pretty girl is not only fond of him, but is instantly jealous of any other girl whose n

een away two years at school; and, when she came back at the end of the second winter, he knew that she had fallen in love with him at sight. He believed that he could time it to a second. He remembered how he had looked up at her as he passed, and she had reddened, and tried to turn away from the window as if she had not seen him. Bartley was still free

ke 'em? See what sort of a shine you can give 'em for Sunday-go-to-meeting to-morrow morning." He put out his hand and laid hold of the boy's head, passing his fingers t

, and the distinction with which he had acquitted himself in every branch of study' he had undertaken. They added that he deserved the greater credit because his early disadvantages as an orphan, dependent on his own exertions for a livelihood, had been so great that he had entered college with difficulty, and with heavy conditions. This turned the scale with a committee who had all been poor boys themselves, and justly feared the encroachments of hereditary aristocracy. They perhaps had their misgivings when the young man, in his well-blacked boots, his gray trousers neatly fitting over them, and his diagonal coat buttoned high with one button, stood before them with his thum

rest laughed at the joke, and the Squire continued: "But I guess if he worked his own way through college, as they say, t

far as it goes,

ruth. The Devil provides

fellows. Still, industry is in a man's favor. If the faculty knew anything against this young man the

young man did not regard his management of the Equity Free Press as a final vocation. The story went that he lounged into the lawyer's office

ney, sardonically, "how muc

man, dropping into one of the empty ch

ndifferent countenance, or the careless posture he had fallen into. A sharper and longer examination followed; the very l

sked the lawyer, with a keen gl

iness by stretching. He was without deference for any presence; and th

dying law?" he as

ask you about," said Ba

put some more questions. Then he s

out the si

e toward the young man. "Go ahead. You'll g

arcia returned home from her last term