I have no fear of anything of the sort.

I expect to get some pupils in the neighbourhood, and also some literary work.

For the moment I am a little hard up, and I thought perhaps that I might make a few shillings by a lecture." "Of the proceeds of which," he remarked, with a dry little smile, "I appear to have robbed you." I shrugged my shoulders.
"I hoped for little but a meal or two from it," I answered.

"The only loss is to my self-respect.

I owe to charity what I might have earned." He took his pipe from his mouth and looked at me with a thin derisive smile.
"You talk," he said, "like a very young man.