And all the time he never despaired.

"There is good stuff in you, Loudon," he would say; "there is the right stuff in you.

Blood will tell, and you will come right in time.

I am not afraid my boy will ever disgrace me; I am only vexed he should sometimes talk nonsense." And then he would pat my shoulder or my hand with a kind of motherly way he had, very affecting in a man so strong and beautiful.
As soon as I had graduated from the high school, he packed me off to the Muskegon Commercial Academy.

You are a foreigner, and you will have a difficulty in accepting the reality of this seat of education.