Occasionally we passed a week or two together here, and disconcerted each other as only such near relations can.

At last you came home.

I candidly tell you, my dear boy, that if you had been awkward and overgrown, I should have exported you to some distant part of the world.' 'I wish with all my soul you had, sir,' said Edward.
'No you don't, Ned,' said his father coolly; 'you are mistaken, I assure you.

I found you a handsome, prepossessing, elegant fellow, and I threw you into the society I can still command.

Having done that, my dear fellow, I consider that I have provided for you in life, and rely upon your doing something to provide for me in return.' 'I do not understand your meaning, sir.' 'My meaning, Ned, is obvious--I observe another fly in the cream-jug, but have the goodness not to take it out as you did the first, for their walk when their legs are milky, is extremely ungraceful and disagreeable--my meaning is, that you must do as I did; that you must marry well and make the most of yourself.' 'A mere fortune-hunter!' cried the son, indignantly.
'What in the devil's name, Ned, would you be!' returned the father.