"For aught I know you may have extravagant aristocratic habits: if you have, drop them; I tolerate nothing of the sort here, and I will never give you a shilling extra, whatever liabilities you may incur--mind that." "Yes, Mr.Crimsworth, you will find I have a good memory." I said no more.

I did not think the time was come for much parley.

I had an instinctive feeling that it would be folly to let one's temper effervesce often with such a man as Edward.

I said to myself, "I will place my cup under this continual dropping; it shall stand there still and steady; when full, it will run over of itself--meantime patience.
Two things are certain.

I am capable of performing the work Mr.
Crimsworth has set me; I can earn my wages conscientiously, and those wages are sufficient to enable me to live.