Your father 'ud a' took a delight in 'im, if 'e'd lived, that 'e would.' For a quarter of an hour or so the dialogue was concerned with domestic history.

Godwin gave brief reply to many questions, but asked none, not even such as civility required.

The elder man, however, was unaffected by this reticence, and when at length his nephew pleaded an engagement as excuse for leave-taking he shook hands with much warmth.

The two parted close by the shop, and Godwin, casting a glance at the now silent College, walked hastily towards his lodgings..