And Hal is
the sharpest, and does everything better than I can when he has a
mind. My father says, among so many all can't choose; and if this
place is to be mine, Hal may want to be in the navy more than I.
Yes, it is all right, and Hal must go. But--but--when my father is
gone--"and Sam fairly burst out crying. "I didn't hardly know how
different it is with him away till this month. I was such a little
fellow when he went to the Black Sea; but now--never mind, though!"
and he stamped his foot on the floor. "Papa said it, and it must be.
Don't tell the others, Miss Fosbrook;" and he resolutely went and
picked up his Euclid, and began finding the place.
"You will do your duty like a man, wherever you are, Sam," said
Christabel heartily.
Sam looked as if he had rather that she had not said it, but it was
comfortable to him for all that; and though she kept further
compliments to herself, she could not but think that there was no
fear but that he would be a man, in the best sense of the word,
before Hal, when she saw him so manfully put his sore grievance out
of his head, and turn to the present business of conquering his
lesson.
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