In the meanwhile I know that I am in some things a stay to father, and that if I was not faithful to him he would--in revenge-like, or in disappointment, or both--go wild and bad.' 'Give us a touch of the fortune-telling pictures about me.' 'I was passing on to them, Charley,' said the girl, who had not changed her attitude since she began, and who now mournfully shook her head; 'the others were all leading up.

There are you--' 'Where am I, Liz ?' 'Still in the hollow down by the flare.' 'There seems to be the deuce-and-all in the hollow down by the flare,' said the boy, glancing from her eyes to the brazier, which had a grisly skeleton look on its long thin legs.
'There are you, Charley, working your way, in secret from father, at the school; and you get prizes; and you go on better and better; and you come to be a--what was it you called it when you told me about that ?' 'Ha, ha! Fortune-telling not know the name!' cried the boy, seeming to be rather relieved by this default on the part of the hollow down by the flare.

'Pupil-teacher.' 'You come to be a pupil-teacher, and you still go on better and better, and you rise to be a master full of learning and respect.

But the secret has come to father's knowledge long before, and it has divided you from father, and from me.' 'No it hasn't!' 'Yes it has, Charley.

I see, as plain as plain can be, that your way is not ours, and that even if father could be got to forgive your taking it (which he never could be), that way of yours would be darkened by our way.