For Fortune and Glory. Lewis Hough
he tubbed and dressed, and had a comfortable breakfast all by himself; for he was too experienced a traveller by this to let melancholy partings spoil his appetite.
He was in town by eleven, getting what was wanted to complete his modest outfit, and at the Sheen cottage with his mother and sister in time for their early dinner.
They were a thoroughly happy trio, for whatever interested one of them became at once equally interesting to the others, and so Harry could have his talk out about the friends he had just parted from without fear of boring any one.
It was a great sorrow to Mrs. Forsyth that her son should be going back to Egypt so soon. She had hoped that the anxiety she had suffered during his former absence was at an end, at least, for some considerable time.
“If his constitution were but settled,” she said, “I should not so much mind; but he is not quite nineteen yet.”
And Beatrice tried to be cheerful, and make light of it, but she was sorely disappointed also.
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