My trouble is lest you should think I acted in complete disregard of you; but, if I am glad to do a good turn, remember, dear father, that it is to you I owe this habit of mind.

And I shall not need money.

I feel it practically certain that I shall get my office, and then it will go smoothly.

The examination draws near, and I am working like a Trojan!" "I cannot carp at you," wrote Jerome Otway in reply, "but tighten the purse-strings after this, and be not overmuch familiar with Alexander the Little or Daniel the Purblind.

Their ways are not mine; let them not be yours!" He had to run up to town for the trying-on of his new garments, and this time the business gave him satisfaction.