indignantly enough some-times, but he did not regret the disposal of
the house or the spoiling of the beautiful grounds as he might have been
supposed to do.

The sudden change in the circumstances of the family had not hurt
Philip. The year's discipline of constant employment, and limited
expenditure, had done him good, and, as he himself declared to Jem and
David, not before it was time. The boyish follies which had clung to
him as a young man, because of the easy times on which he had fallen,
must have grown into something worse than folly before long, and but for
the chance of wholesome hard work which had been provided for him, and
his earnest desire to work out the best possible result for his father's
good name, he might have gone to ruin in one way or other. But these
things, with the help of other influences, had kept him from evil, and
encouraged him to good, and there were high hopes for Philip still.

He had not been in Singleton all the year, but here and there and
everywhere, at the bidding of the cautious, but laborious and judicious,
Caldwell, who had daily increasing confidence in his business capacity,
and did not hesitate to make the utmost use of his youthful strength.
When he was in Singleton, his home was in Mr Caldwell's house. He had
gone there for a day or two, till other arrangements could be made. But
no other arrangements were needed. He stayed there more contentedly
than he could at the beginning of the year have supposed possible, and
it grew less a matter of self-denial to Mr and Mrs Caldwell to have
him there as time went on. He had a second home in the house of Mrs
Inglis; and this other good had come to him out of his father's
troubles, and the way he had taken to help them, that he made a friend
of David Inglis. He had supposed himself friendly enough with him
before, but he knew nothing about him. That is to say, he knew nothing
about that which made David so different from himself, so different from
most of the young men with whom he had had to do.

"In one thing he is different," Mrs Inglis had said, "He is a servant
of God. He professes to wish to live no longer to himself." With this
in his thought, he watched David at home and abroad, at first only
curiously, but afterwards with other feelings. David was shy of him for
a time, and kept the position of "mere lad," which Philip had at first
given him, long after his friendship was sought on other terms. But
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