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126 UNOPENED PARCELS. pointment. Everybody, as well as myself, thought him a fine fellow, and respected him. With how good reason you may suppose, when I tell you they do so still." My father paused, and I half jumped from my seat in surprise. Then he was alive; wouldn't papa tell me who it was; did I know him? &c. I begged very hard, but in vain, and my father continued his account. "You have heard enough of schools, Honor, to know that whatever feelings of this, I suppose, romantic character I entertained, I had to keep to myself. Anything like friendly intercourse with him was out of the question. His only reception of my stammered thanks the day after the accident was, 'Don't be such a little fool again,' accompanied by a grim smile as he turned on his heel. All this was en regle, and I knew it, but not the less did I think and sometimes dream of the powerful face with the anxious, earnest eyes. as I had seen them in my extremity above that terrible water. ...Nay, one day I was punished by a heavy box on the ear from a friend