sorrow. Ellis burst into tears.

"Going away, Monsieur Malin; you, my kindest friend, going!" he
exclaimed, and his whole look and manner showed that he had an
affectionate and grateful heart.

The feeling was infectious. A number of the little fellows, who did not
even learn French, and had very little to do with Monsieur Malin, cried.
Some, however, had reason to be sorry at his going away, for often had
his watchful eye saved them from being bullied by the big boys; they,
too, felt that they were about to lose a friend and protector. Why, it
may well be asked, should the French master have gained so much more
influence among the boys, and be so much more generally liked than any
of the English masters? It was simply because he exhibited so much more
sympathy for others. He made himself one of them. It was not that he
now and then played a grand game of cricket with them, but that he
entered into all their minor sports and amusements. He could show them
how to make models of all sorts; he manufactured carriages with
cardboard, or cut out boats, or carved animals in wood, or made little
grottoes with shells; indeed it is impossible to describe all the
ingenious things he could do, and how kindly and patiently he taught the
boys how to do them. It made some of the English masters quite jealous
when they observed the sorrow which Monsieur Malin's departure caused
among the boys. The Doctor remarked upon it, and said that it was the
best compliment any master could desire to have paid him, and he trusted
that whoever succeeded him might as richly deserve it.

"Bracebridge, I wonder that you are not more sorry than you appear to be
at Monsieur Malin's going," observed Buttar, the day that the event was
announced; "I thought that you were always one of his greatest
favourites."

"I believe that there are no fellows like him better than I do,"
answered Ernest; "I am very, very sorry, for my own sake, that he is
going; but really, when we come to consider that he is going away from
the bother, and trouble, and noise of a school, to go and live on a
beautiful property of his own, in a delightful climate like that of
France, I cannot but be truly glad to hear of his good fortune. He has
been telling me all about the place, and how happy his mother and sister
will be to go and live with him; and he has invited me, during some
holidays, or when I leave school, to go and pay him a visit; and when I
told him that I wa