Upon my word, the more I think of that notion of mine the better I like it.

I shouldn't at all wonder if my evening Academy doesn't end in working the reformation of Zack!" When Mr.Blyth pronounced those last words, if he could only have looked a little way into the future--if he could only have suspected how strangely the home-interests dearest to his heart were connected with his success in working the reformation of Zack--the smile which was now on his face would have left it in a moment; and, for the first time in his life, he would have sat before one of his own pictures in the character of an unhappy man..