PART THE LAST.
'Do but grasp into the thick of human life! Everyone lives it—to not many is it known; and seize it where you will, it is interesting'—Goethe.
'Successful.—Terminating in accomplishing what is wished or intended.'—Webster's Dictionary.
CHAPTER II.—continued.
As soon as they reached the room, Mrs. Meeker exclaimed, 'Augustus! tell me, what does this mean!'
The young man, thus appealed to, stopped, and, regarding his mother with a fierce expression, exclaimed:
'It means that I quit New York to-night!'
'Augustus! you are a cruel creature to alarm me in this way.'
'It is so, mother. I have got into a bad scrape.'
'Tell me just what it is, Augustus—tell me the whole truth.'