It's discipline he needs, and he'll get it good and plenty every time he comes here." "I--I'm afraid he may cease coming here.

That's the worst of it.

For his sister's sake I think we ought to try to put up with--" "Put up! Put up! I've been doing nothing else since he came of age.

He's turned out a fool of a puppy, I tell you; he's idle, lazy, dissipated, impudent, conceited, insufferable--" "But not vicious, Austin, and not untruthful.

Where his affections are centred he is always generous; where they should be centred he is merely thoughtless, not deliberately selfish--" "See here, Phil, how much good has your molly-coddling done him?
You warned him to be cautious in his intimacy with Neergard, and he was actually insulting to you--" "I know; but I understood.