But a glance at the youth soon
withdrew his mind from this contemplation, and the sombre pages of
the present opened upon his eye, and the doubtful ones of the future
became, on the instant, those which he most desired to peruse.
The study of the young is always a study of the past with the
old. They seem, in such a contemplation, to live over the records
of memory. They feel as one just returning from a long and weary
journey, who encounters another, freshly starting to traverse the
same weary but inviting track. Something in the character of William
Hinkley, which seemed to resemble his own, made this feeling yet
more active in the mind of Mr. Calvert; and his earnest desire was
to help the youth forward on the path which, he soon perceived, it
was destined that the other should finally take. He was not satisfied
with the indecision of character which the youth displayed. But
how could he blame it harshly? It was in this very respect that his
own character had failed, and though he felt that all his counsels
were to be addressed to this point, yet he knew not where; or in
what manner, to begin.
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