You have your son to comfort and assist you; he has nobody at all.

The advantages must not be all one side.

You are in the same boat, and we must divide the ballast a little more equally.' She was about to speak, but he checked her, and went on.
'The only way of doing this, is by making up a little purse now and then for my friend; and that's what I advise.

He bears you no malice that I know of, ma'am: so little, that although you have treated him harshly more than once, and driven him, I may say, out of doors, he has that regard for you that I believe even if you disappointed him now, he would consent to take charge of your son, and to make a man of him.' He laid a great stress on these latter words, and paused as if to find out what effect they had produced.

She only answered by her tears.
'He is a likely lad,' said the blind man, thoughtfully, 'for many purposes, and not ill-disposed to try his fortune in a little change and bustle, if I may judge from what I heard of his talk with you to-night .-- Come.