There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people; but Mr.Henderland had their very speech upon his tongue.

And though I was a good deal puffed up with my adventures and with having come off, as the saying is, with flying colours; yet he soon had me on my knees beside a simple, poor old man, and both proud and glad to be there.
Before we went to bed he offered me sixpence to help me on my way, out of a scanty store he kept in the turf wall of his house; at which excess of goodness I knew not what to do.

But at last he was so earnest with me that I thought it the more mannerly part to let him have his way, and so left him poorer than myself..