Somehow I feel persuaded that he will." "Thank God!" "I too say thank God; for his mother was a good friend to me when I was his age.

He is only just one-and-twenty.

There may be a long successful life before him yet." "I hope so," said Christian, earnestly.

"And perhaps a happy one too.
But it could never be half so happy as mine." Thus did these two, secure and content, rejoice over the "lost piece of silver," believing, with a pertinacity that some may smile at, that it was silver after all.
"One thing more.

He will be at least three years away; and no one knows what may happen to him in the mean time, he says.