If he's got nothing odd about him, and answers straightforward, and holds his head up, he gets on.

Now, you'll do very well as to rig, all but that cap.

You see I'm doing the handsome thing by you, because my father knows yours; besides, I want to please the old lady.

She gave me half a sov.

this half, and perhaps'll double it next, if I keep in her good books." There's nothing for candour like a lower-school boy, and East was a genuine specimen--frank, hearty, and good-natured, well-satisfied with himself and his position, and choke-full of life and spirits, and all the Rugby prejudices and traditions which he had been able to get together in the long course of one half-year during which he had been at the School-house.
And Tom, notwithstanding his bumptiousness, felt friends with him at once, and began sucking in all his ways and prejudices, as fast as he could understand them.
East was great in the character of cicerone.