But he was in algebra now, or rather through it, and they speedily discovered that he seemed to have every example in the lesson committed to memory.
Meantime, Mr.Burrows returned, and listened with astonishment and delight.
"Thank you heartily," he said afterwards.

"You ought to fit yourself for teaching.

But, Edward, you did not get through algebra alone ?" "No," said Edward, flushing at the thought of Ray; "I had the best and wisest teacher on earth." Well, he sat down in what had been his seat, and tried to imagine that it was his seat still; that Bob would be in pretty soon, and plague him while he studied his spelling-lesson.

But he could not do it.

"Things were different,"-- very different.