so handy this twelvemonth back? Git out uv me sight, ye spalpeen,
and out uv me doors! Go find them as'll kape yees to stale rich
folks' children, an' thin lie to the mother as bore yees, and the
kind masther as tried to make a gintleman out uv a thafe. Begone, I
say, Teddy Ginniss, and quit pizenin' the air of an honest woman's
room wid yer prisince!"

Teddy rose, and was leaving the room without a word, but at the door
turned back; looked long and wistfully at his mother, who had turned
away, and affected not to see him; then slowly said,--

"Good-by, mother! It's worse nor you can I'm feeling. Good-by! If
ever I come to any good, I'll let you know; and, if I don't, you're
shut of me for always."

The mother made no answer; and Teddy, lingering one moment on the
threshold to turn his sad eyes for the last time upon the familiar
objects that had surrounded him since childhood, went out, and down
the stairs.

In the street he paused a moment, looking up and down, wondering
where he should first go, and how food and shelter for the coming
night were to be obtained. The question yet unsolved, he was walking
slowly on; when a voice far overhead called,--

"Teddy!-Teddy Ginniss! Come here, I say!"

It was his mother's voice; and, as he looked up, it was his mother's
face and hand summoning him.