"Indeed, he's only too brave.

He upset his father and me terribly last week by wanting to go to sea instead of to the office." "And much better for him, ma'am," said the old doctor, promptly; "he'll make a first-rate sailor, and if Crayshaw's is all the schooling he's had, a very indifferent clerk." "That's just what I think!" I began, but my mother coloured crimson with distress, and I stopped, and went after her worsted ball which she had dropped, whilst she appealed to Doctor Brown.
"Pray don't say so, Doctor Brown.

Jack is _very_ good, and it's all _quite_ decided.

I couldn't part with him, and his father would be _so_ annoyed if the subject----" "Tut, tut, ma'am!" said the doctor, pocketing his spectacles; "I never interfere with family affairs, and I never repeat what I hear.

The first rules of the profession, young gentleman, and very good general rules for anybody." I got quite well again, and my new life began.