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He handed him the fragment , ran to his own room , returned presently , looking all right , and when Mr. Sclater would have attended to his wound , would not let him even look at it , laughing at the idea . Still further relieved to find there was nothing to attract observation to the injury , and yet more ashamed of himself , the minister made haste to the refuge of their work ; but it did not require the gleam of the paper substituted for the slate , to keep him that morning in remembrance of what he had done ; indeed it hovered about him long after the gray of the new slate had passed into a dark blue . From that time , after luncheon , which followed immediately upon lessons , Gibbie went and came as he pleased . Mrs. Sclater begged he would never be out after ten o'clock without having let them know that he meant to stay all night with his friend : not once did he neglect this request , and they soon came to have perfect confidence not only in any individual promise he might make , but in his general punctuality . Mrs. Sclater never came to know anything of his wounded head , and it gave the minister a sharp sting of compunction , as well as increased his sense of moral inferiority , when he saw that for a fortnight or so he never took his favourite place at her feet , evidently that she should not look down on his head . The same evening they had friends to dinner . Already Gibbie was so far civilized , as they called it , that he might have sat at any dining-table without attracting the least attention , but that evening he attracted a great deal .