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Rh let Edward try the apparatus and to instruct him.

But the time had come at last when Edward was privileged to walk in and make use of the  place just as if it were his own gymnasium;  when Charles became indeed shy of putting  on the boxing-gloves and standing up to him;  and when, if Charles taunted Edward with  his inferiority on the horizontal bar, Edward  could reply by putting the fifty-pound dumbbell straight up from his shoulder and saying,—

“Come on; let’s see you do this.”

The room looked the same as when Edward had last seen it, with the punching-bag suspended in the middle, the foils and boxing-gloves hung on the walls, the chest-weights by  the head of the bed, and the trophies, the  medals and cups on the mantel-piece; it was  all the same except for one quite noticeable  addition.

That was a rowing-machine, of the kind that Edward had seen in the gymnasium at  St. Timothy’s. There was the little sliding seat