“It will cost each of them less than either you or I have paid for a single ocean passage,” said Master Lewis.
The boys spent the afternoon in letter-writing.
Tommy Toby wrote a long letter to George Howe.
“I have taken George into my confidence,” said he, after tea, as Master Lewis and the boys were sitting by the open windows of the hotel, “and have given him an account of my hunting adventure in Nottingham.”
“Suppose you read the letter to us,” said Master Lewis.
Tommy, whose nature would not allow him to keep a secret long, however disparaging to himself, seemed pleased to accept Master Lewis’s suggestion.
Oxford, July.
Dear George:—
We are all pleased with the trip you are making.
We have been to lots of curious places,—dust heaps of old kings and queens and we have heard a lark sing.