"She gave me thirteen dollars." Notwithstanding this argument, Bobby felt almost sure that the lost ten dollars was a part of his capital.
"I will tell you my story now, Bob, if you like.

You condemned me without a hearing, as Jim Guthrie said when they sent him to the House of Correction for getting drunk." "Go ahead." The substance of Tom's story was, that his father drank so hard, and was such a tyrant in the house, that he could endure it no longer.
His father and mother did not agree, as any one might have suspected.

His mother, encouraged by the success of Bobby, thought that Tom might do something of the kind, and she had provided him the money to buy his stock of books.
Bobby had not much confidence in this story.

He had been deceived once; besides, it was not consistent with his previous narrative, and he had not before hinted that he had obtained his mother's consent.

But Tom was eloquent, and protested that he had reformed, and meant to do well.