How should he be strong, living as he has done?
Not that it seemed to hurt me when I was his age." "You had the advantage of hard work." "That's it.

Sometimes I wish that Louis had not a shilling in the world; that he had to trudge about with an apron round his waist as I did.

But it's too late now to think of that.

If he would only marry, doctor." Dr Thorne again expressed an opinion that no step would be so likely to reform the habits of the young heir as marriage; and repeated his advice to the father to implore his son to take a wife.
"I'll tell you what, Thorne," said he.

And then, after a pause, he went on.