he said at last.

"I think I have, father."

"And on what grounds? The grounds which recommend it to you are very
strong. Your education has adapted you for it. Your success in it is
already insured by your fellowship. In a great degree you have entered
it as a profession already by taking a fellowship. What you are doing is
not choosing a line in life, but changing one already chosen. You are
making of yourself a rolling stone."

"A stone should roll till it has come to the spot that suits it."

"Why not give up the school if it irks you?"

"And become a Cambridge Don, and practice deportment among the
undergraduates."

"I don't see that you need do that. You need not even live at Cambridge.
Take a church in London. You would be sure to get one by holding up your
hand. If that, with your fellowship, is not sufficient, I will give you
what more you want."

"No, father--no. By God's blessing I will never ask you for a pound. I
can hold my fellowship for four years longer without orders, and in four
years' time I think I can earn my bread."

"I don't doubt that, Harry."

"Then why should I not follow my wishes in this matter? The truth is, I