"I think," he said slowly, "it is a place that needs a much older, a much better, and a much wiser man than I am to be among its leaders in any sense.

It is not at all what I thought it would be when I accepted the trust.

It is beyond me.

But since the Bishop sent me here, I mean to stay and do my best." "How will you begin ?" "I will begin with you," he answered, lightly, with a smile that lit up all his face, the moment's seriousness quite gone.

"You were my first friend, and I ought to take you first in hand, ought I not?
I am going to do you a great deal of good." "How ?" "I'm going to teach you to love books." "You can't." "Yes, I can.