about
noon of Friday
It 's good that they 'll soon be shut of me altogether . Maybe I can sweep the crossings , or clean the gutters , '' thought poor miserable Teddy , bending afresh to his task . Mr. Burroughs did not come so soon as expected ; and Mr. Barlow became quite impatient of the constant inquiry addressed to him by Teddy as to the probable movements of his master . At last , about noon of Friday , he walked into the office , looking more cheerful and like his old self than he had been since the heavy sorrow had fallen upon the household so near to his heart . Mr. Barlow greeted him heartily , and , calling him into the inner office , closed the door ; while Teddy remained without , his heart beating with a sick hard throb , a tingling pain creeping from his brain to the ends of his icy fingers , and his whole frame trembling with agitation . It was no light task that he had set himself ; and so he well knew . To stand before the man he loved and reverenced before all men and say to him that he had been for months deliberately deceiving and injuring him and his ; to confess that he had not once , but persistently , refused the only chance ever offered him of repaying , in some measure , the kindness and generosity of his patron ; to acknowledge grateful , -- oh !