"Your goings-on are not what I shall find money for any longer.

There's my grandfather had his stables full o' horses, and kept a good house, too, and in worse times, by what I can make out; and so might I, if I hadn't four good-for-nothing fellows to hang on me like horse-leeches.

I've been too good a father to you all--that's what it is.

But I shall pull up, sir." Godfrey was silent.

He was not likely to be very penetrating in his judgments, but he had always had a sense that his father's indulgence had not been kindness, and had had a vague longing for some discipline that would have checked his own errant weakness and helped his better will.