Which wonder Mr. Linden did not inquire into.
"I am very sorry I wasn't a boy this morning!" said Dr. Harrison, after standing and looking down at him a little.
"Can't you sit down and say why?"
"I should have heard so much!—which now I am not to hear. For if I had been a boy, I should certainly not have been missing at your levee."
"O you deceive yourself,—if you were a boy nothing short of my authority would bring you, in the first place."
"I have not the slightest doubt the power would have been found equal to the resistance," said the doctor bowing.
"Neither have I."
"Well!—" said the doctor laughing a little peculiarly,—"in that case I should have been here. Now I have a fancy to know what you call pleasant things, Linden. You speak with a mouth full—as if there were plenty of them."
"Yes, there are plenty," Mr. Linden said, moving a little and resting his face on his hand as if he felt tired; "but we were talking of only two this morning,—heaven, and the way thither."
Dr. Harrison looked at him steadily.