"And you want it too, I suppose?"
"Yes — I'll do the best I can by my children. I can't do as I would by them all," said the father, with a mixture of pride expressed and pride not expressed, — "but I'll try to make a man of Will!"
"And t'other'll make a man of himself," said Mr. Underhill, as he saw Winthrop quit the stoop. "He'll never run a plough up the side of a house. But what kind of a man are you going to make of Will? — a great man?"
"Ah, I don't know!" said Mr. Landholm with a sigh. "That must be as Providence directs."
"Hum — I should say that Providence directs you to keep 'em both to hum," said Mr. Underhill; — "but that's not my affair. Well, I'm going. — I hear you are goin' to be in Vantassel this winter?"
"Yes — I'm going to make laws for you," Mr. Landholm answered laughing.
"Well —" said Mr. Underhill taking his hat, — "I wish they'd put you up for President — I'd vote for you!"
"Thank you. Why?"
"'Cause I should expect you'd give me somethin' nother and make a great man of me!"
With a laugh at his own wit, Mr. Underhill departed.