What good has he ever done himself?
Take care that he does not fleece you." The merchant felt instinctively, as he glanced at the shrewd, dark face of his son, that the warning was a superfluous one.
"No fear, father," Ezra answered sulkily; "I am old enough to choose my own friends." "Why such a friend as that ?" "I like to know men of that class.

You are a successful man, father, but you--well, you can't be much help to me socially.

You need some one to show you the ropes, and the major is my man.

When I can stand alone, I'll soon let him know it." "Well, go your own way," said Girdlestone shortly.

Hard to all the world, he was soft only in this one direction.