I had recently been studying the lost brother's portrait, you know, and was struck and horrified by the resemblance.

Mr Armstrong," added she, after a pause, "if I were Roger's guardian and tutor, I would stand by him all the more that his duty is an unpleasant one.

Thank you; here we are at the gate.

Good- bye.

I hope you will have a pleasant time at Oxford." And she passed in, leaving the good man in a sad state of bewilderment and perplexity.
He started a day or two later in a somewhat depressed frame of mind for Oxford, where he astonished and delighted most of his old creditors by calling and paying off a further instalment of his debts to them.