"Do you consider you have got your reward for a season of exertion?" asked Mr. Rivers, when they were gone. "Does not the consciousness of having done some real good in your day and generation give pleasure?"

     "Doubtless."

     "And you have only toiled a few months! Would not a life devoted to the task of regenerating your race be well spent?"

     "Yes," I said; "but I could not go on for ever so: I want to enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those of other people. I must enjoy them now; don't recall either my mind or body to the school; I am out of it and disposed for full holiday."

     He looked grave. "What now? What sudden eagerness is this you evince? What are you going to do?"

     "To be active: as active as I can. And first I must beg you to set Hannah at liberty, and get somebody else to wait on you."

     "Do you want her?"