heartiness of their good wishes there was no expressed consciousness that there was as much heroism in their quiet lives as in the lives of great heroes and daring adventurers; which very unconsciousness and unexpressed abnegation made that heroism (begging Mr. Ruskin's pardon for calling it so) all the grander. Joshua had bidden the Old Sailor good-by. The dear, simple old fellow had given Joshua some golden rules to go by; had enjoined him to be respectful and submissive; to learn all he could; to be cheerful always, and to do his work willingly, however hard it seemed; not to mix himself up in the men's quarrels or grumblings; had told him how that some officers were querulous, and some were tyrannical, but that he could always keep himself out of mischief by obeying orders; and had impressed upon him, more particularly than all, the value of the golden motto--Duty. "Keep that for your watchword, my lad," said the Old Sailor, "and you will do." "I am glad it is nearly all over," said Joshua to Dan. "I have only two or three more to say good-by to, with the exception of mother and father, and Ellen and you, dear Dan." "There's Susan, Jo," said Dan after a pause. "I wish you could see her before you go." "I wish so, too. I am going now to say good-by to Minnie and her father." "Is he better, Jo?" "I haven't seen him for a week; but I don't think he is ever quite right here;" touching his forehead. They were speaking of the street actor, whose name was Basil Kindred. "And Minnie is very pretty, you say." "Very pretty, but with such strange ways, Dan, as I have told you before." "Yes," said Dan, looking earnestly at Joshua. "Sometimes like a woman, which she is not; sometimes like a little child, which she is not. Yet for all she is so strange, one can't help loving her, and pitying her." "Is she at all like Ellen, Jo?" "Minnie is not like Ellen," said Joshua, considering. "Ellen's face is calm and peaceful; Minnie's is grander, larger. Minnie is the kind of girl for a heroine, and Ellen is not, I think. She is too peaceful. Say that Ellen is like a lake, Minnie is like the sea." A quiet smile passed over Dan's lips, yet a regretful one, too. "You don't know Ellen, Jo," he said "Give me the lake." "And me the sea," said Joshua, not meaning it at all with reference to the girls, but literally, with reference to his choice of a profession.