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could have done this quite fearlessly and confidently, if it had not been that he saw her father and Mr. Denman before his eyes. He was perfectly confident in his mind that he was on good terms with everybody in the world, and that he could make an ex tempore speech on any subject. For how long he was like this he never could find out, and he did not like to recall the circumstance to mind. He was carefully watched by the Captain, Susie, and Mr. Denman, and when they saw signs that he was coming to himself the Captain said,—

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'I knew," said the Captain, "that a drop would do you good. Well, as it has done Mr. Hughes good, Susie, why shouldn't it do me good? And when you have brought it me, Susie, you can go, and leave us to finish our business,—that is, if Mr. Hughes feels ready to go on."

"Certainly," said Enoch, vivaciously, "I am ready to enter into any reasonable arrangement, and I promise you, Captain Trevor, when I come into nearer relationship with you, if ever I do, that you shall not have the trouble with me that you have had to-night. I never felt like it before. Usually I am a strong enough man, and work as hard as anyone almost, but I couldn't help somehow".

"That's your fault, Mr. Hughes," said the Captain, before Enoch finished the sentence. "You work too hard, and that's why a man like you ought to (thank you, Susie, you can go now) -yes, that's why a man like you ought to have someone to share in your load and cares, and to look after your comforts. That is your great want, Mr. Hughes, and if you would only fill up that want you would be a happy man. What would have become of me, sir, if it had not been for Mrs. Trevor? I should have been in my grave many a day ago. Pardon me, Mr. Hughes, but a man who has reached his,-well, say my age,ought to be a bit of a philosopher. I don't see any object or aim worthy of a man in a single life. You know, Mr. Hughes,-for you are, like myself, one who has read a lot,-when a man simply

thinks of himself in his search for happiness he always fails to get it; but when he directs his endeavours towards making others happy, then he gains his own happiness. For example,—for there's nothing better than an example,-if I had made my own happiness the chief aim of my life, and if Mrs. Trevor had done the same, we should both of us have been bound to have failed. But, as the great aim of Mrs. Trevor's and of my life has been for each to make the other happy, we have gained our happiness together. And this is entirely in accordance with the teaching of our Lord on self denial, no matter how loth the world is to believe such teaching. Is it not so, Mr. Denman ?

"I never heard anyone put the thing more neatly. You are a sharp'un, Captain," said Mr. Denman, though he had for some time been thinking of the sort of reception he would get from Mrs. Denman when he got home.

"No," said the Captain, "it is not necessary for a man to be a sharp one to discover such a truth as that, and I very much expect that Mr. Hughes will have gained experience in the matter before many more months."-("He is hurrying on the wedding; but the sooner the better so far as I am concerned," said Enoch to himself)." But it is time for me to come to the point," continued the Captain.

"Yes," said Enoch, "and I am quite ready. The sooner we come to an understanding with each other the better."

"Well," said the Captain, "I have been beating about the bush for a good long time before coming to the point,("Dreadfully so," said Enoch in his breast)," but I should have come to it before if it had not been,-well, there is no need to talk of that again. But this is the point, Mr. Hughes." -(Enoch held his breath).-"You know,-no one knows better except Mr. Denman and myself, perhaps, that Pwllygwynt mine has been, and still is, a great support to the neighbourhood in which Providence has thought fit to let your and my lines fall. And, perhaps," - and here the Captain allowed himself to fall a-talking.

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