I'll do what I can--always.

I know you better than you know yourself.

Good-bye." He turned to the door; and Gerald burst out: "Why can't you let my friends alone?
I liked you before you began this sort of thing!" "I will let them alone if you will," said Selwyn, halting.

"I can't stand by and see you exploited and used and perverted.

Will you give me one chance to talk it over, Gerald ?" "No, I wont!" returned Gerald hotly; "I'll stand for my friends every time! There's no treachery in me!" "You are not standing by me very fast," said the elder man gently.
"I said I was standing by my _friends_!" repeated the boy.
"Very well, Gerald; but it's at the expense of your own people, I'm afraid." "That's my business, and you're not one of 'em!" retorted the boy, infuriated; "and you won't be, either, if I can prevent it, no matter whether people say that you're engaged to her--" "What!" whispered Selwyn, wheeling like a flash.