CHAPTER XXIV.
A TUTORSHIP.
It cannot but be an unpleasant change for a youth, to pass from a house and lands where he is son--ah, how much better than master! and take a subordinate position in another; but the discipline is invaluable.

To meet what but for dignity would be humiliation, to do one's work in spite of misunderstanding, and accept one's position thoroughly, entrenching it with recognized duty, is no easy matter.

As to how Cosmo stood this ordeal of honesty, I will only say that he never gave up trying to do better.
His great delight and consolation were his father's letters, which he treasured as if they had been a lover's, as indeed they were in a much deeper and truer sense than most love-letters.

The two wrote regularly, and shared their best and deepest with each other.

The letters also of Mr.Simon did much to uplift him, and enable him to endure and strive.
Nobody knows what the relation of father and son may yet come to.
Those who accept the Christian revelation are bound to recognize that there must be in it depths infinite, ages off being fathomed yet.