I know your circumstances; they ain't what they was, and I don't s'pose you've got enough to buy the engagement ring, I want a big one.

A solitary--no cluster for me.

I know what 'tis to be poor.

Take it, Thomas.' So Tom took it with a sense of shame which prompted him several times to tear it in shreds and throw them to the winds.

But this he did not do, for he knew he should need money, as he had none of his own; and when, a few days before, he had asked Colvin for some, that worthy man, who had never taken kindly to him, had bidden him go to a very warm place for money, as he had no orders to give him any.
'Your uncle,' he said, 'settled one hundred thousand dollars on your father--the more fool he--and expects him to live on it.