The wine coming at the moment prevented his finishing the sentence. He swallowed a glassful and took up the paper again. At that instant—

"As you please."

He had arranged a few regular lessons for the boys; and one night, as he paced up and down the dismal schoolroom, his swollen heart almost bursting to think that his protection and countenance should have increased the misery of the wretched being whose peculiar destitution had awakened his pity, he paused mechanically in a dark corner where sat the object of his thoughts.