Just the time when instruction would be of the most service to you.

You would learn more in the ensuing year, than in all that have gone before it.

Leave school! no, no, I must see you the head boy in it yet.' "'That was my ambition, sir.

But you know I am only a poor orphan lad, entirely dependent on the bounty of Sir Alexander Moncton.

I have offended this gentleman, and he will do no more for me; and I walked from the Park to-day to ask your advice as to what course I had better pursue, and in what way I am most likely to earn my own living.' "The old gentleman looked grave.
"'Offended Sir Alexander?
You must have acted very imprudently to do that, and he so kind to you.