But I shouldn't have thrown myself away as I have done if you had cared to know what I was doing." "Did I not care, Reuben ?" "If so, you thought it was your duty not to show it.

You thought harshness was the only proper treatment for a case such as mine.

I had had too much of that." "What did you mean just now by speaking as though you were poor ?" "I have been poor for a long time--poor compared with what I was.

Most of my money has gone--on the fool's way.

I haven't come here to lament over it.