If not--you will excuse me--but you must not let him live as freely as his father; the constitutions of the two are very different." "Don't talk so, sir.

Steady?
His father makes him drunk now, if he can; teaches him to swear, because it is manly--God help him and me!" Tom's cunning and yet kind shaft had sped.

He guessed that with a coarse woman like Mrs.Trebooze his best plan was to come as straight to the point as he could; and he was right.

Ere half an hour was over, that woman had few secrets on earth which Tom did not know.
"Let me give you one hint before I go," said he at last.

"Persuade your husband to go into a militia regiment." "Why?
He would see so much company, and it would be so expensive." "The expense would repay itself ten times over.