In the meantime, I should regret, for your own sake, that anything in the shape of a falling away from your opportunities should appear in you.

I speak now as your friend, Sam, not as your master--nay, rather as your brother, Sam--as a man who is not without his own lapses and infirmities, but who still trusts--though not by his own strength--that he may be looked upon, in some faint degree, as an example of what a man, wrestling with the cares and trials of life, ought at, least, to strive to be.

To Him be the praise!" "I certainly overslept myself this morning, sir--that is the truth." "Yes, Sam; sloth is one of the disguises under which the enemy often assails and overcomes us.

But to business, Sam.

There is an old woman in Castle Cumber, whose name I scarcely remember.