All my hopes in you revived; but as I continued to watch your course (more closely, perhaps, than you supposed), I observed with pain that those hopes must be again disappointed.

It needs but a glance at your countenance to be sure that you are not so upright or right-minded a boy as you were two years ago.
I can judge only from your outward course; but I deeply fear, Williams, I deeply fear, that in _other_ respects also you are going the down-hill road.

And what am I to think now, when on the _same_ morning, you and your little brother _both_ come before me for such serious and heavy faults?
I cannot free you from blame even for _his_ misdoings, for you are his natural guardian here; I am only glad that you were not involved with him in that charge." "Let _me_ bear the punishment, sir, instead of him," said Eric, by a sudden impulse; "for I misled him, and was there myself." Dr.Rowlands paced the room in deep sorrow.

"You, Williams! on the verge of the sixth form.

Alas! I fear, from this, that the state of things among you is even worse than I had supposed." Eric again hung his head.
"No; you have confessed the sin voluntarily, and therefore at present I shall not notice it; only, let me entreat you to beware.