There is no man upon, this earth I care for very much except you.

I am not a man prone to friendship.

In fact, I am a selfish worthless fellow at the best, Gilbert, and hardly merit your serious consideration.

It would be wiser of you to think of me as I really am, and to think very little of me." "You did not show yourself remarkably selfish when you nursed me through that fever, at the hazard of your own life." "Pshaw! that was nothing.

I could not have done less in the position in which we two were.