Why are you here ?--unnaturally concerning yourself with the passions of a man of my age, as if you were the parent, and I the son?
Would to heaven, Willy, you had done as I wished you to do, and led the life of a steady, thoughtful young man! Instead of meddling here, you should now have been in some studio, college, or professional man's chambers, engaged in a useful pursuit which might have made one proud to own you.

But you were so precocious and headstrong; and this is what you have come to: you promise to be worthless!' 'I think I shall go to my lodgings to-day instead of staying here over these pictures,' said Dare, after a silence during which Captain De Stancy endeavoured to calm himself.

'I was going to tell you that my dinner to-day will unfortunately be one of herbs, for want of the needful.

I have come to my last stiver .-- You dine at the mess, I suppose, captain ?' De Stancy had walked away; but Dare knew that he played a pretty sure card in that speech.

De Stancy's heart could not withstand the suggested contrast between a lonely meal of bread-and-cheese and a well-ordered dinner amid cheerful companions.