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as advanced in his studies as the sons of
Mr. Kartmann. His fellow-students, who were
younger than he was,—one by two years, the
other by four,—were proud of his progress, and
treated him more as a companion than as a
person dependent in a great measure upon their
father. If this good understanding arose partly
from the good hearts of the youths, the conduct
of Fred greatly contributed to maintain it. He
was so modest about his acquirements, so civil
and obliging, so truly grateful, and so careful
not to ask any additional favours, that they
would have blushed to make him feel his
position.

When he had reached his nineteenth year,
Mr. Kartmann promoted him to be one of the
overseers in the factory. He was so sober and
steady, that, though the style of his dress was
superior to that of others of the same class in
the establishment, he did not fail to save enough
money with which to purchase books, mathe-
matical instruments, and other articles required
for his studies. It was a source of great satis-
faction to him that he could now pay for these
things, instead of continuing to receive them
from his kind employer, He felt no longer