No good ever came of anything he did yet, and no good ever will come.

Don't you have anything to do with him, Marian.

He'll try to get all your money away from you, if you give him a chance--depend upon that." "He is living, then?
O, my dear grandfather, do tell me something more about him.

Remember that whatever his errors may have been, he is my father--the only relation I have in the world except yourself." "His whole life has been one long error," answered Jacob Nowell.

"I tell you, child, the less you know of him the better." He was not to be moved from this, and would say no more about his son, in spite of Marian's earnest pleading.