text:  For some days after he was observed to walk about looking gloomy and disheartened and was heard to say to some of his family that he began to think matters had really gone too far between him and his good friend the Squire to whom he owed his bread; that on second thoughts he would give up the point about intruding ushers on the schools and see whether the Squire might not be prevailed on to arrange matters on an amicable footing; and that he would take an opportunity the next time he had an assembly at his house of consulting his friends on the subject