"Keep your boy at home," replied Constantine.

"Oh, you! If you'd been kept at home, they wouldn't have turned you out like a dog in the wrong kennel."

"Strike up," said Florian; and they sang:--

"Blithe let me be,

If 'tis but well with thee,

Although my youth and freshness

Must wither hopelessly.

"No streamlet on the hill-side

But finds its course to run;

But not a hand to open