"It is I who have been complaining to him, and he admits that you are altogether beyond his authority.

I have pointed out to him that he is in no way obliged to support you at your age in idleness and dissipation, and that it were best for him and all concerned that he should close his doors to you.

I don't want to have to send the son of my old friend to prison, but I can see well enough that that is what it will come to if you don't give up your evil courses.

I should think you know by this time that I am a man of my word.

I have taken some pains to purge this village of all bad characters, and I do not intend to have an exception made of the son of the clergyman, who, in his family as well as in his own person, is bound to set an example." "Well, Mr.Thorndyke, I utterly decline to obey your orders or to be guided by your advice." "Very well, sir," the magistrate said sternly.