At least I'm resolved now to be steady and industrious; and I certainly should be a great fool if I were not." "Sartin, Sir, with your chances and prospects, yes, and your talents, coz, I allers said to ma, sez I, he's got talent if he hain't nothin' else.

I suppose your Uncle Lawrence won't be so shy of you now, hey?
No, of course not.

A man who has a smart nevy in Congress has a tap in a good barrel." And Mr.Van Boozenberg laughed loudly at his own humor.
"Why, yes.Sir.I think I may say that the pleasantest part of my new life--if you will allow me to use the expression--is my return to the friends best worth having.

I think I have learned, Sir, that steady-going business, with no nonsense about it, is the permanent thing.

It isn't flopdoddle, Sir, but it's solid food." "Tonguey," thought old Jacob Van Boozenberg, "but vastly improved.