ng that a man has to put up with, and I think that I can bear it as
well as another. But an attack has been made upon me which has wounded
me."

"I know all about it."

"I don't mind telling you, as you and Molly are going to hit it off
together. There is a girl I love, and they have tried to interfere with
her."

"They haven't succeeded?"

"No, by George! And now I'm as right as a trivet. When it came across me
that she might have--might have yielded, you know,--it was as though all
had been over. I ought not to have suspected her."

"But she's all right?"

"Indeed she is. I think you'll like her when you see her some day. If
you don't, you have the most extraordinary taste I ever knew a man to
possess. How about the horse?"

"I have four, you know."

"What a grand thing it is to be a brewer!"

"And there are two of them will carry you. The other two are not quite
up to your weight."

"You haven't been out yet?"

"Well, no;--not exactly out. The governor is the best fellow in the
world, but he draws the line at cub-hunting. He says the business should
be the business till November. Upon my word, I think he's right."

"And how many days a week after that?"

"Well, three regular. I do get an odd day with the Essex sometimes, and
the governor winks."

"The governor hunts himself as often as you."

"Oh dear no; three a week does for the governor, and he is beginning to
like frosty weather, and to hear with pleasure that one of the old
horses isn't as fit as he should be. He's what they call training off.
Good-bye, old fellow. Mind you come out on the 7th of November."

But Harry, though he had been made happy by the letter from Florence,
had still a great many troubles on his mind. His first trouble was the
having to do something in reference to his uncle. It did not appear to
him to be proper to accept his uncle's decision in regard to his income,
without, at any rate, attempting to see Mr. Prosper. It would be as
though he had taken what was done as a matter of course,--as though his
uncle could stop the income without leaving him any ground of complaint.
Of the intended marriage,--if it were intended,--he would say nothing. His
uncle had never promised him in so many words not to marry, and there
would be, he thought, something ignoble in his asking his uncle not to
do that which he intended to do himself without even consulting his
uncle about it. As he turned it all over in his mind he began to as