"I fear that Travers will be much too free with stinging remarks.

It's a time when men should control their tongues.
Do you be careful with yours.

You're a youth in years, but you're a man in size, and you should be a man in thought, too.

You and I have been close together, and I have trusted you, even when you were a little boy." "It's so, father," replied Harry, with affection and gratitude.
"And I'm going to trust you yet further.

It may be that I shall give you a task requiring great skill and energy." The colonel looked closely at his son, and he gave silent approval to the tall, well-knit form, and the alert, eager face.
"We'll have supper presently," he said, "and then we will talk with visitors.