At dinner the conversation was as calm and cheerful as ever; and after it, the principal went out walking with his sister and a few ladies of his acquaintance, while all business men who met him exclaimed in amazement, "He goes out walking to-day! As usual, he has known it all before the rest of us.

He has a good head of his own.

The house is a solid house.
All honor to him!" Anton sat all day at his desk in a state of nervous excitement till then unknown to him.

He was full of anxiety and suspense, and yet there was something of enjoyment in his feelings.

He was keenly alive to the danger in which his principal and the business were placed, but he was no longer dejected or spiritless--nay, he felt every faculty enhanced; never had he written so easily; never had his style been so' clear, or his calculations so rapidly made.