HOME AT THE HAVEN.

 to do the best I can to make you grow up a good
 and honourable man; and I think that if you were
 placed at a good school, and away from all the in,
 dulgences of the Haven, it would be better for you,
 perhaps."
 Edward turned these words of his mother over in
S his mind, and they gave him courage for what neither
 his mother nor Lucy would ever have expected of him.
 They were quite taken by surprise the next day, when
 sitting with Captain Osborne, to see Edward come
 into the room on his return from school, and going up
 to his uncle, say in quite an open and courageous
 manner-
 Uncle, I really am sorry and ashamed to think
 that my behaviour is making us all go away from the
 Haven. Don't you think, uncle, that I might be sent
 away to school, and that then my mother and Lucy
 could stay on with you ? I think it would be the
 best plan in the world, if you will only persuade my
 mother."
 "I do think it would be a good plan, Edward, and
 the best way of all to settle the difficulty," said his
 uncle; and he held out his hand to Edward, and added,
 I am glad, too, to see that you are learning to speak
 out and be straightforward, my boy; and I hope that
 the day may come when you will see that a ship might
 as well attempt to sail without either rudder or com-
 pass, as for a man to go through the world without a
 character for truth and honesty."
 Captain Osborne, after this, had a long consulta-
 tion about Edward with his mother; and this time he
 really did persuade her to stay on at the Haven. It
 was decided that Edward should become a boarder at
 a school which was several miles off. which they knew
 had a strict but kind and just master, and where no