"
"And are you still employed about those awful papers?"
"I have not looked at them since you left the room."
"Then you must have been asleep."
"No, indeed; I have not been asleep. You left me too much to think of to
enable me to sleep. What am I to do with myself besides eating and
drinking, so that I shall not sleep always on this side of the grave?"
"There are twenty things, papa,--thirty, fifty, for a man so minded as
you are." This she said trying to comfort him.
"I must endeavor to find one or two of the fifty." Then he went back to
his papers, and really worked hard on that day.
On the following morning, early, he went across to Bolsover Terrace, to
begin his task of reproving the Carroll family, without saying a word to
Dolly indicative of his purpose.
He found that the task would be difficult, and as he went he considered
within his mind how best it might be accomplished. He had put a
prayer-book in his pocket, without giving it much thought; but before he
knocked at the door he had assured himself that the prayer-book would
not be of avail. He would not know how to begin to use it, and felt that
it would be ridiculed. He must leave that to Dolly or to the clergyman.
He could talk to the girls; but they would not care about the affairs of
the firm; and, in truth, he did not know what they would care about.
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