He has been so good to me that I never can repay him, never! When my own father was drowned he took me in, a little orphan that would probably have been sent to a home, and no father could be kinder or more indulgent than he has been.

Anything I asked for I got, and at last I learned not to ask for too much.

No self-denial on his part was too great, if he could please me.

When he needed money most he said nothing to me, but insisted that I should be educated.

I didn't know until afterwards of the self-sacrifice my four years at the Middleboro Academy meant to him." The minister had listened eagerly to this defense of the man whom he had been led to consider his arch enemy.