"How's a man to find out God's plan for him?"
"Just the way you are doing. When work is set before you, take hold of it. When the Lord has some more for you He'll let you know."
"Then you think this is my work, Miss Dolly, to go home and take care of her? She wanted me to make a man of myself; and when Mr. Copley made me his offer, she didn't hold me back. But she cried some!"
"You cannot do another so manly a thing as this, Rupert. I wouldn't let her cry any more, if I were you."
"No more I ain't a-goin' to," said the young man energetically. "But, Miss Dolly"——
"What?"
"Do you think it is my duty, because I do one thing, to do t'other? Do you think I ought to take to shoemaking?"
"Why to shoemaking, Rupert?"
"Well, my father was a shoemaker. They're all shoemakers at Lynn, pretty much."
"That is no reason why you should be. Your education, the education you have got since you came over to this side, has fitted you for something else, if you like something else better."