That makes it worse.

Thank God, his mother's dead! All this would have broken her heart." For a moment the two men were silent, then the captain continued in a tone as if he were talking to himself, his eyes on the lamp: "But I couldn't have lived with him after that, and I told him so--not till he acted fair and square, like a man.

I hoped he would some day, but that's over now." "We're none of us bad all the way through, captain," reasoned the doctor, "and don't you think of him in that way.

He would have come to himself some day and been a comfort to you.

I didn't know him as well as I might, and only as I met him at Yardley, but he must have had a great many fine qualities or the Cobdens wouldn't have liked him.