You can ill afford my schooling, and I am resolved that at school I will not stay.

Saville is a relation of ours; he has taken a fancy to me; he has even hinted that he may leave me his fortune; and he has promised, at least, to afford me a home and his tuition as long as I like.

Give me free passport hereafter to come and go as I list, and I in turn, will engage never to cost you another shilling.

Come, sir, shall it be a compact ?" "You wound me, Percy," said the father, with a mournful pride in his tone; "I have not deserved this, at least from you.

You know not, boy--you know not all that has hardened this heart; but to you it has not been hard, and a taunt from you--yes, that is the serpent's tooth!" Percy in an instant was at his father's feet; he seized both his hands, and burst into a passionate fit of tears.