Part 3 (1/2)
”Poor Jem!” she said softly; ”I'm afraid I'm very unkind to hi on an e a boatout toward the channel, and flying her colours in the evening breeze
”Poor little Sally!” he said to hiet on soh to her; but knives and scissors!
What a te but a pleasant fraone ho treated as a laggard
”Co solanced quickly round the well-furnished rooe from the west, and with the poison of Mike's words still at work, he wondered how ed to him
The next moment his eyes lit on the soft sweet troubled face of his mother, full of appeal and reproach, and it see her by an account of his delinquencies
”It's top bad, and I don't deserve it,” he said to hi now Well, what are you looking at?” he added, to himself, as he took his seat and stared across at his cousin, the playmate of many years, whose quiet little worave, reproachful look, but who, as it were, snatched her eyes away as soon as she ht Don, as in that unhappy stage of a boy's life when help is sodown one of the dark side lanes of the great main route
”Been for a walk, Don?” said his mother with a tender look
”No, mother, I only stopped back in the yard a little while”
His uncle set down his cup sharply
”You have not been keeping that scoundrel Bannock?” he cried
”No, sir; I've been talking to Jem”
”Ho!” ejaculated the old ht home”
Don's eyes encountered his Cousin Kitty's just then, as she gave her head a shake to throw back the brown curls which clustered about her white forehead
She turned her gaze upon her plate, and he could see that she was frowning
”Yes,” thought Don, ”they all dislike me, and I'm only a worry and trouble to my mother I wish I was far away--anywhere”
He went on with his tea lances of his mother's eyes, which seemed to him to say, and with some reason, ”Don't be sulky, Don, my boy; try and behave as I could wish”
”It's of no use to try,” he said to himself; and the meal passed off very silently, and with a cold chill on every one present
”I'm very sorry, Laura,” said her brother, as soon as Don had left the roo fault and scolding, but if the boy is in the wrong I must chide”
”Try and be patient with hily
”He is very young yet”