You think you will be contented here ?" "Of course, father." "But you'll have to work, Nic." "To be sure, father.

I'm sure I shall like it." "A great change from school, my boy." "Yes, father; but it was a great change for you to come from your London practice." "So it was, Nic," said the doctor: "a greater change, perhaps, for I was no longer young and sanguine.

Greatest of all was the change for your mother and sisters--leaving, as they did, all the pleasant comforts of life, to be their own servants and stoop to all kinds of work.

But they were very good.

They saw health was the great thing.