Oh how my whole soul yearns towards him.

I _must_ be a better boy, I _will_ be better than I have been, in the hopes of meeting him again.

Indeed, indeed, dear aunt, though I have been so guilty, I am laying aside, with all my might, idleness and all bad habits, and doing my very best to redeem the lost years.

I do hope that the rest of my time at Roslyn will be more worthily spent than any of it has been as yet." He finished the sentence, and laid his pen down to think, gazing quietly on the blue hills and sunlit sea.

A feeling of hope and repose stole over him;--when suddenly he saw at the door, which was ajar, the leering eyes and villainously cunning countenance of Billy.
"What do you want ?" he said angrily, casting at the intruder a look of intense disgust.
"Beg pardon, sir," said the man, pulling his hair.