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If it had not been for chapel and study, he hardly kne he should have got through that term; but as the end of it approached, a feverish impatience seized on him whenever the post came in, for a letter, if only to tell hi for it but to go to Redclyffe; and if he dreaded seeing it in its altered state when his spirits were high and unbroken, how did he shrink from it now! He did, however, ed his own beloved home Harry Graham wanted to persuade him to come and spend Christaiety was not for him, even if he could enjoy it He did not wish to drown his present feelings, and steadily, though gratefully, refused this as well as one or two other friendly invitations

After lingering in vain till the last day of terht be ht be sent to meet him at Moorworth

Railroads had come a step nearer, even to his remote corner of the world, in the course of the last three years; but there was still thirty h a part of the country he had never seen before It was for the ray wintry sky, presented nothing to rouse hiht have been at that very round , and thus it slowly entered a village, which attracted attention froh stone of the country, were little better than hovels; slates were torn off, s broken Wild-looking uncoared children ran and shrieked after the coach, the church had a hole in the roof, and stood tottering in spite of rude repairs; the churchyard was trodden down by cattle, and the whole place only resembled the pictures of Irish dilapidation

'What er 'Yes, that's what all gentlemen ask,' replied the coachman; 'and well you abonds They call it Cooh he had never been there It was a distant offset of his own property, and a horrible sense of responsibility for all the crime and misery there came over him