Page:Stanwood Pier--Harding of St Timothys.djvu/195

Rh did not influence him into renouncing honors already won. It was as a suggestion for future conduct rather than as a corrective of the past that it was to have its effect.

He honestly wished now to evade prominence, to avoid being conspicuous; and he decided that the best way was by staying in his room and studying hard, and doing his editorial work for the "Mirror" with more care and with less of the eleventh-hour facility which he had been accustomed to give to it. In short, he was determined to see if he could not work in a quite unworldly way.

The time did not favor him; it was between seasons, so to speak, when there was not much to do outdoors. Snow and ice had not yet come, and in the recreation hours the boys roamed restlessly from room to room.

Harry's quarters had always been a rallying-place, and it was impossible to make the fellows understand that they were not so welcome as formerly, even if it had been true. Harry always confessed to a weak sort of gladness when they arrived and compelled him to put