His health had broken down under the severe work
of organising, and he had accepted the easy task of reading with
Armine Brownlow for the winter in a perfect climate, as a welcome
mode of recruiting his strength. He had truly recruited it in an
unexpected manner, and was about to take home with him one who would
prove such a helpmeet as would lighten all the troubles and
difficulties that had weighed so heavily on him, and remove some of
them entirely.
So he came out and testified to the remarkable ability and zeal he
had found in his pupil, and likewise to the spirit of industry which
had prevented the desultory life of travelling and ill-health from
having made him nearly so much behindhand as might have been
expected. If he only had health to work steadily for the next two
years, he would be quite as well prepared to matriculate at the
university as all but the very foremost scholars from the public
schools. Mr. Morgan thought his intellect equal to that of his
brother Robert, who had taken a double first-class, but of a finer
order, being open to those poetical instincts which went for nothing
with the materialistic Bobus.
Wherewith the friends fell into conversation more immediately
interesting to themselves, while at the other end of the court,
sheltered by a great orange-tree, a committee of the "Traveller's
Joy" was held.
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