'I'd do it.

I'd provide for you.' 'I am afraid,' said Tom, shaking his head, 'that I should be a mighty awkward person to provide for.' 'Pooh, pooh!' rejoined Martin.

'Never mind that.

If I took it in my head to say, "Pinch is a clever fellow; I approve of Pinch;" I should like to know the man who would venture to put himself in opposition to me.
Besides, confound it, Tom, you could be useful to me in a hundred ways.' 'If I were not useful in one or two, it shouldn't be for want of trying,' said Tom.
'For instance,' pursued Martin, after a short reflection, 'you'd be a capital fellow, now, to see that my ideas were properly carried out; and to overlook the works in their progress before they were sufficiently advanced to be very interesting to ME; and to take all that sort of plain sailing.

Then you'd be a splendid fellow to show people over my studio, and to talk about Art to 'em, when I couldn't be bored myself, and all that kind of thing.