a casual tone.

"I picked up a little at school. It was a phrase I happened to
remember," confessed Grindley junior, wondering why he should be
feeling ashamed of himself.

"I am always sorry," said Miss Appleyard, "when I see anyone
content with the lower life whose talents might, perhaps, fit him
for the higher." Something about the tone and manner of Miss
Appleyard reminded Grindley junior of his former Rector. Each
seemed to have arrived by different roads at the same philosophical
aloofness from the world, tempered by chastened interest in human
phenomena. "Would you like to try to raise yourself--to improve
yourself--to educate yourself?"

An unseen little rogue, who was enjoying himself immensely,
whispered to Grindley junior to say nothing but "Yes," he should.

"Will you let me help you?" asked Miss Appleyard. And the simple
and heartfelt gratitude with which Grindley junior closed upon the
offer proved to Miss Appleyard how true it is that to do good to
others is the highest joy.

Miss Appleyard had come prepared for possible acceptance. "You had
better begin with this," thought Miss Appleyard. "I have marked
the passages that you should learn by heart. Make a note of
anything you do not understand, and I will explain it to you when--
when next I happen to be passing."

Grindley junior took the book--Bell's Introduction to the Study of