No, sir; and she wouldn't break her heart if the boys were not left a stick or a stone on the farm when the father dies.

I have watched her, and I know it.

Ah! I could tell you such things! But there's no time now--it's close on ten o'clock; we must say good-night.

I am right glad I have spoken to you, sir.

I say again, at parting, what I have said already: Use your influence, pray use your influence, to soften them, and to make them ashamed of themselves, in this wicked house.