It galls me, sir, it galls me to see my own children sticking up their noses at honest employment." "Pardon me, but so far as I am concerned you are wrong.

I seek honest employment.

But what is the most honest employment?
Any employment that yields an income?
No; but the work that one is best fitted for and which is therefore the most satisfactory.

If you had shaped my early life"-- "Andrew was a fool!" Witherspoon broke in.

"He was crazy." "But he was something of a gentleman, sir." "Gentleman!" Witherspoon snorted; "he was the worst of all thieves--a child-stealer." "And had you been entirely blameless, sir ?" "What! and do you reproach me?
Now look here." He pointed a shaking finger at Henry.