I am sorry to see that he has begun the second year badly." "O, his is a very hopeful case!" said Mr.Agneau.

"He is penitent for his folly, and I never saw so great a change in an individual as he exhibited on my second visit to him last evening." "I hope he will not disappoint you.

I only mentioned him to show what a benefit the ship had been to him; for if it keeps him out of trouble even a single year, it is so far a blessing to him, to say nothing of his intellectual progress, which has been more than satisfactory.

The fact that there are gambling, and drinking and other vices on board, does not diminish my faith in the institution." "It certainly ought not to do so," added Dr.Winstock, who was not so sanguine a reformer as the chaplain and was willing to wait till the medicine had time to produce an effect.

"Here is an evil: we must meet it, and we needn't stop to groan over it.