The Little Master (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Little Master

"Here's a letter for you, Chat," said Mr. John Wales, as he drove into his yard, and turned up at the wood-shed door, where a boyish-looking young man came out to meet him.

Perhaps you would have said an oldish-looking boy. He had a head almost too large for his body, which was short and slight, and a forehead that would have seemed quite too large for his face, if it had not been balanced by a good nose and chin. He had short, light-brown hair, a pleasant but firm mouth, and gray eyes that twinkled through a pair of steel-bowed spectacles.

It was partly the spectacles, no doubt, that gave Chauncey Mayhew his studious, mature expression. He was only eighteen, but near-sighted, in consequence of too intense application to his books by twilight and lamp-light, - "A sin and a shame," honest John Wales declared.

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