Now she wants this animal looked after because of Mrs.Lamb; and the squire has some sort of absurd belief that because the same breasts that nursed him nursed our patient, he must befriend the fellow--and he does.

Truth is, Rivers, that man's father was a sodden drunkard but, I am told, not otherwise bad.

It's a pretty sure doom for the child.

This man's body has damned his soul, and now the soul is paying it back in kind." "The damnation will be settled elsewhere," said Rivers gravely.

"You are pleading for him when you say he had a father who drank." "Well, yes, yes.