"There, let us talk it
over together. I don't suppose you expected to steal and deceive
when you got up in the morning."
"Oh no, no!"
"Go back to the beginning. See how you came to this."
As he waited for an answer, Hal mumbled out after some time, "You
said we need not go to church on a week-day."
"Well, what of that?"
"I didn't go in case the telegraph should come."
"There are different ways of thinking," said his father. "Church was
the only place where I COULD have gone that St. Barnabas' Day."
"I would have gone," said the self-contradictory Henry, "only the
Grevilles are always at one for being like a girl."
"Ha! now we see daylight!" said the Captain.
"'The Grevilles are at one,'--that's more like getting to the bottom
of it."
"Yes, Papa," said Hal, glad to make himself out a victim to
circumstance; "you can't think what a pair of fellows those are for
not letting one alone; Purday says they haven't as much conscience
between them as a pigeon's egg has meat; and going down to Mr.
Carey's with them every day, they let one have no peace.
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