For the rest, soon you will go away from here, since the year for which you came is almost finished, and you must turn your mind to the bigger life.

I pray you when you do, not to forget me, for, my boy, I, who have no son, have learned to love you like a son, better perhaps, than had you been one, since often I have observed that it is not always fathers and sons that love each other most, frequently the other way, indeed.
"Also I pray another thing of you--that if you think I have any wisdom, or any little light in the lamp of this ugly, old body of mine, you will always take me for a counsellor, and write to me concerning your troubles, (as indeed, you must do, for remember I am your trustee of this property,) and perhaps pay attention to the advice I may give.

And now let us get to our stars; they are much more amusing than Madame Riennes.

It is strange to think that the same God who made the stars also made Madame Riennes.

Truly He is a charitable and tolerant God!" "Perhaps the devil made her," suggested Godfrey.
"It may be so, it may be so, but is it not said in the Book of Proverbs, I believe, that He makes both good and evil for His own infinite ends, though what these may be, I, worm that I am, cannot pretend to understand.