I -- I -- did n't want to go away . I 'll try to do everything you want me to do . I 'll work ever so hard . '' `` Humph ! '' This , of course , was from Clemantiny , as she set a pan of apples on the stove with an emphatic thud . `` Nobody ever doubted your willingness to work . Pity everything else about you is n't as satisfactory . '' `` Clemantiny ! '' said Miss Salome rebukingly . She put her arms about Chester and drew him to her . `` Then it is all settled , Chester . You are my boy now , and of course I shall expect you to be a good boy . '' If ever a boy was determined to be good , that boy was Chester . That day was the beginning of a new life for him . He began to go to the Hopedale school the next week . Miss Salome gave him all Johnny 's old school books and took an eager interest in his studies . Chester ought to have been very happy , and at first he was ; but as the bright , mellow days of autumn passed by , a shadow came over his happiness . He could not help thinking that he had really deceived Miss Salome , and was deceiving her still -- Miss Salome , who had such confidence in him . He was not what he pretended to be . And as for his running away , he felt sure that Miss Salome would view that with horror .
As the time passed by and he learned more and more what a high standard of honour and truth she had , he XXXXX more and more ashamed of himself .
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