The Metropolites

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Alone, repeated the boy, as the tear started in his eye, and he abruptly left the room. That night the old counsellor and Walter held a long consultation; but what happened was never known. On the next day the woman who had brought the boy, being sent for, was closeted as before. Never again was she known...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Alone, repeated the boy, as the tear started in his eye, and he abruptly left the room. That night the old counsellor and Walter held a long consultation; but what happened was never known. On the next day the woman who had brought the boy, being sent for, was closeted as before. Never again was she known to enter the office; nor did Tune make his appearance as usual. In a few months he was forgotten by the clients who had noticed his handsome face, as important changes soon after occurred. The good old uncle, the senior counsel, suddenly died, so that Walter succeeded to his place in the inner room, with all its business and tin boxes, its perquisites and parchments. But amid the mass of papers nothing was found to reveal the mystery respecting the boy. Perhaps the old uncle was as ignorant as his nephew on the subject. CHAPTER H. Those who controlled the destinies of the unfortunate boy had wisely resolved to remove him from the drudgery of a lawyer's office, and to give him a classical education. He was therefore sent to college at a distance from the city, where he soon after arrived with a heavy heart. It was indeed a grent trial to deprive him of the society of the few from whom he had received kindness, and to place him among strangers indifferent to his welfare. He was now too distant from New York to have anything in common with the metropolis, and he felt not only solitary but sad in the extreme. No friendly hand was outstretched to give him a welcome; no familiar face to smile a greeting in initiating Him to the habits and customs of student life. His presence at recitations first attracted the attention of his classmates, where his prepossessing appearance made for him a favorable impression, while his manly bearing when addressing the professor won ...