"
Ellis wheeled around, and spoke in his coldest tone:
"Tip Lewis, you seem to take a wonderful interest in me, and I'm sure I'm
much obliged to you; but I'll be a great deal more so if you'll attend to
your own affairs after this, and let mine alone."
Poor Tip! how discouraged he felt! Yet that very evening, going home
from school, he met Mr. Holbrook; the minister turned and walked up
town with him.
"Edward," he said, "are you praying for my boy?"
"Yes, sir."
"Will you never stop praying for him while you live, until he comes
to Christ?"
"I never _will_, sir," answered Tip, with energy.
CHAPTER XVIII.
"Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall
rejoice."
How did Mr. Holbrook know so well what Kitty needed to help her? His
words had given her such new thoughts; some way it was all new to her,
the idea that she had any duty to perform towards her mother. She stood
thinking of it that bright winter day,--stood before the little fire, and
wondered how it was that she ought to commence.
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