Donal Grant

into the study, he saw seated there the man he had met on his first day's journe

keen glance, but uttered n

g up at him with concentrated seve

ppen to know or hear of, sir," said

ood man whose friendship for your parents gives him a kind interest in you? You little thought how you were undermining your prospects last Friday! My old friend would scarcely have me welcome to my parish one he may be

r!" said Donal, a

er's son-the worst-behaved of all the students. Was this a case of the sins of the father

away. Almost unconsciously he took the road to the castle, and

vie bounding, pushed his hand through be

oking for you a

asked

ent you a

had no

k it this

I have not been ho

y father would l

t it: then I shal

bler is a dirty little man! You

ay soap and water can't get them quite clean. But he will have a nice earth-bath one day, and that will take

p at Donal, unsure whether he was making ga

saw a cleaner.-You know, my dear boy, ther

tared as if he wondered he

the fullness of his heart his

ride?"

a li

taugh

are I was

I do not like to be made game

ever make game of anybody.-But n

, "but my father will not let me be

oung Eppy had brought was from the earl. It informed Donal that it would

e was again on the