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"The offender's sorrow brings but s offence's cross"

--SHAKESPEARE: Sonnets

I am sorry to say that only the third day after the propitious events

at Houndsley Fred Vincy had fallen into worse spirits than he had known

in his life before Not that he had been disappointed as to the

possible ain could be

concluded with Lord Medlicote's hty pounds had been invested, had without the slightest

warning exhibited in the stable athe groo his leg in a rope that overhung the stable-board There was

no more redress for this than for the discovery of bad tee--which of course old companions were aware of before the

ceremony For some reason or other, Fred had none of his usual

elasticity under this stroke of ill-fortune: he was simply aware that

he had only fifty pounds, that there was no chance of his getting any

more at present, and that the bill for a hundred and sixty would be

presented in five days Even if he had applied to his father on the