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elf-bolt, and he saw its sharp point, he was shocked, and he saw horror in Averil's face. 'I see,' he said gravely. 'It was a mercy I did not!' and he paused. 'I did not know what I was about when you were misusing my dog, Henry. Shake hands; I am sorry for it.' But Henry had been very much frightened as well as angered, and thought, perhaps, it was a moment to pursue his advantage. 'You treat things lightly,' he said, not accepting the hand. 'See what you have done.' 'I am glad it was not your head,' said Leonard. 'What does it cost? I'll pay.' 'More than your keep for a year,' moaned Henry, as he sighed over the long limbs of the starfish-like fracture. 'Well, I will give up anything you like, if you will only not be sulky about it, Henry. It was unlucky, and I'm sorry for it; I can't say more!' 'But I can,' said Henry with angry dignity, re-inforced by the sight of the seamed reflection of his visage in the shivered glass. 'I tell you, Leonard, there's no having you in the house; you defy my authority, you insult my friends, you waste and destroy more than you are worth, and you are absolutely dangerous. I would as soon have a wild beast about the place. If you don't get the Randall next week, and get off to the University, to old Axworthy's office you go at once.' 'Very well, I will,' said Leonard, turning to collect the fossils, as if he had done with the subject. 'Henry, Henry, what are you saying?' cried the sister. 'Not a word, Ave,' said Leonard. 'I had rather break stones on the road than live where my keep is grudged, and there's not spirit enough to get over a moment's fright.' 'It is not any one individual thing,' began Henry, in a tone of annoyance, 'but your whole course--' There he paused, perceiving that Leonard paid no attention to his words, continuing quietly to replace the furniture and collect the fossils, as it no one else were in the room, after which he carried the basket up-stairs. Averil hurried after him. 'Leonard! oh, why don't you explain? Why don't you tell him how the stones came there?' Leonard shook his head sternly. 'Don't you mean to do anything?' 'Nothing.' 'But you wanted another year before trying for the scholarship.' 'Yes; I have no chance there.' 'He will not do it! He cannot mean it!' 'I do then. I will get my own living, and not be a burthen, where my brother cannot forgive a broken glass or a moment's fright,' said
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