At tea he was treated like the other boys, and at supper also,
and from that time this went on. If Mr. Evans saw it, he did not
interfere; but this good man was very absent, and many things passed
before him which he did not notice.

"After a few days, one would have thought that Miss Evans and her
nephew had ceased to care altogether about Bernard's feelings; they
began to talk before him of who was to have the house and living, and
that it was necessary to take great care of the house and furniture;
and Bernard was told that he must not run rampaging about as he had
done formerly; for, as Miss Grizzy said, there was little enough left,
she feared, for his maintenance, and there was no need to make things
worse.

"It was a hard lesson for the spoiled boy to be taught to be patient
under these mortifications, and never to fire up and answer these cruel
hints; but he was patient, he bore much and said little. He felt that
he deserved to be humbled in this way, and he tried to be submissive.

"Another month or six weeks went, and Bernard had only two earthly
comforts: one was from the gentleness of Mr. Evans, and the other from
the rough kindness of Griffith, who gave Meekin a sound drubbing one
day for calling Bernard Noddy.

"'Why,' said Meekin, 'did not _you_ give him the name?'

"'I did,' answered Griffith; 'but he shan't hear it now, never again.'

"The season of Whitsuntide had come round, and the boys were to go home
for a week, and only Meekin, Low, and Stephen were left. The bells were
not set to ring as usual on Sunday morning; the ringers were thoughtful
enough to refuse to ring; but Stephen was resolved to have a peal, and
he and Meekin and the big boy who worked about the place, and one other
whom they contrived to muster, had one peal on the Sunday, and several
others on the Monday.

"The return of Whitsuntide made Bernard more unhappy than he had been
for many days. He remembered that time a year ago so very exactly, and
what everybody had then said and done--his own bad behaviour
especially. He had a very sad Sunday, and got up even more sad on the
Monday morning.

"Miss Grizzy had put him out of his old sleeping-room after his
recovery, into a little room which looked over the stable yard. Before
he was dressed he heard talking in the yard. He dressed in haste, and
ran to the window, and there he saw just below him a young man called
Benjamin, the same who had helped to ring the bells with Stephe