James is a good boy, upright and honourable, and would not tell a lie under any consideration.

What is he to do?
If I could afford to send him to a good school it would be a different thing, but that you know I cannot do.

From nine in the morning, until five in the afternoon, my time is occupied by teaching, and I cannot expect, nor do I wish, that he should sit moping indoors all day.

He had far better be out in the boats with the fishermen, than be hanging about the place doing nothing.

If anything happened to me, before he is started in life, there would be nothing for him but to take to the sea.
I am laying by a little money every month, and if I live for another year there will be enough to buy him a fishing boat and nets.