ne to find Robinson Crusoe's island in the
map.

"Go, child," said Mrs. Proctor: but this was not enough. Mr. Tooke
himself had to pass him under his left arm before he could shake hands
with Mrs. Proctor. Hugh was now covered with shame at this hint that he
was in the way; but yet he did not leave the room. He stole to the
window, and flung himself down on two chairs, as if looking into the
street from behind the blind; but he saw nothing that passed out of
doors, so eager was his hope of hearing something of the Crofton
boys,--their trap-ball, and their Saturday walk with the usher. Not a
word of this kind did he hear. As soon as Mr. Tooke had agreed to stay
to dinner, his sisters were desired to carry their work elsewhere,--to
the leads, if they liked; and he was told that he might go to play. He
had hoped he might be overlooked in the window; and unwillingly did he
put down first one leg and then the other from the chairs, and saunter
out of the room. He did not choose to go near his sisters, to be told
how stupidly he had stood in the gentleman's way; so, when he saw that
they were placing their stools on the leads, he went up into the attic,
and then down into the kitchen, to see where little Harry was, to play
at school-boys in the back yard.

The maid Susan was not sorry that Harry was taken off her hands; for she
wished to rub up her spoons, and fill her castors afresh, for the sake
of the visitor who had come in. The thoughtful Jane soon came down with
the keys to get out a clean table-cloth, and order a dish of cutlets, in
addition to the dinner, and consult with Susan about some dessert; so
that, as the little boys looked up from their play, they saw Agnes
sitting alone at work upon the leads.

They had played some time, Hugh acting a naughty boy who could not say
his Latin lesson to the usher, and little Harry punishing him with far
more words than a real usher uses on such an occasion, when they heard
Agnes calling them from above their heads. She was leaning over from the
leads, begging Hugh to come up to her,--that very moment. Harry must be
left below, as the leads were a forbidden place for him. So Harry went
to Jane, to see her dish up greengage plums which he must not touch: and
Hugh ran up the stairs. As he passed through the passage, his mother
called him. Full of some kind of hope (he did not himself know what), he
entered the parlour, and saw Mr. Tooke's eyes fixed on him. But his
mother only