Holbrook has some little business to transact' with Kitty
to-night; shall I walk with you?" And, as Tip saw there was no help for
it, and walked by his side, he said, "I didn't see you at school this
afternoon: how was that?"
"Mr. Holbrook, didn't Ellis tell you about it this noon?"
"Ellis has told me nothing. I heard, from one of the smaller boys, a very
sad story. Have you anything to tell me?"
"No, sir, I have not; it's all true. I got awful mad, and I said mad
things. I--I did worse than that."
Tip's voice sank to a solemn whisper. Mr. Holbrook, too, was silent and
sad; at last he said,--
"What, Edward! do you mean to give up, and go back to the old life?"
And he remembered, years after, just how painfully his heart throbbed
while he waited for Tip's answer; it was prompt and plain: "No, sir; God
wouldn't even let me do that."
And then for a minute Mr. Holbrook did not speak for very
thankfulness, that, through all this maze of sin, God was leading Tip
into the light again.
"Do you feel that you have God's forgiveness?" he asked, speaking gently.
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