Therefore, mind how thou triest to fool me.

Mother always said I was not such a fool as I looked." "You may well be that," Jacob said, "and yet a very big fool.

But at present I do not know whether your folly is more than skin deep, and methinks that the respectable trader, your uncle, has taught you more than how to eat like a Christian." Harry felt at once that in this sharp boy he had a critic far more dangerous than any he was likely to meet elsewhere.

Others would pass him unnoticed; but his fellow-apprentice would criticise every act and word, and he felt somewhat disquieted to find that he had fallen under such supervision.

It was now, he felt, all-important for him to discover what were the real sentiments of the boy, and whether he was trustworthy to his master, and to be relied upon to keep the secret which had fallen into his possession.
"I have been," he said, "in the big church at the end of this street.
What a pother the preachers do surely keep up there.