I trust that it may not come to that, but I see nothing derogatory in his earning an honest living with his own hands.

He will always be something better than a common fisherman.

The education I have striven to give him, and his knowledge that he was born a gentleman, will nerve him to try and rise.
"As to what you say about mischief, so far as I know all boys are mischievous.

I know that my own brothers were always getting into scrapes, and I have no doubt, Mr.Allanby, that when you look back upon your own boyhood, you will see that you were not an exception to the general rule." Mr.Allanby smiled.

He had come rather against his own inclinations; but his wife had urged him to speak to Mrs.Walsham, her temper being ruffled by the disappearance of two favourite pigeons, whose loss she, without a shadow of evidence, most unjustly put down to James Walsham.
The parson was by no means strict with his flock.