Quite as good as the real thing if you don't know the difference," and again he laughed heartily.
"And the boy," I asked, "was he disappointing ?" "Young Breen ?--not a bit of it.

He's like all the young fellows who come up here from the South--especially the country districts--and he's from western Maryland, he says.

Got queer ideas about work and what a gentleman should do to earn his living--same old talk.

Hot-house plants most of them--never amount to anything, really, until they are pruned and set out in the cold." "Got any sense ?" I ventured.
"No, not much--not yet--but he's got temperament and refinement and a ten commandments' code of morals." "Rather rare, isn't it ?" I asked.
"Yes--perhaps so." "And I suppose you are going to take him up and do for him, like the others." Peter picked up the poker and made a jab at the fire; then he answered slowly: "Well, Major, I can't tell yet--not positively.

But he's certainly worth saving.".