Stand the burnin'.

An' when it's gone you'll be all the gladder an' I'll be all the prouder.'...

I have not forgotten all Jack's former failings, but I am forgetting them, little by little.
For dad's sake I'm overjoyed.

For Jack's I am glad.

I'm convinced now that he's had his lesson--that he's sowed his wild oats--that he has become a man." Moore listened eagerly, and when she had concluded he thoughtfully bent his head and began to cut little chips out of the log with his knife.
"Collie, I've heard a good deal of the change in Jack," he said, earnestly.