"Long years of kindness, tenfold to mine, could not atone for the harshness and injustice of which I was once guilty.

You will go into the world and blush like Waller's rose, to be so admired.

You will be surrounded by new friends, new lovers, and look back to these walls as to a prison-house, and to me, as the grim jailer of your youth." "No indeed, Mr.Regulus; you wrong yourself and me.

Memory will hang many a sweet garland on these classic walls, and will turn gratefully to you, as the benefactor of my childhood, the mentor of my growing years." My voice choked.

A strange dread took possession of me, he looked so agitated, so little like himself.