I have friends who are rich and powerful, and who will help us." "You don't know what you say, Bobby.

Sixty dollars is a great deal of money, and if we should sell all we have, it would scarcely bring that." "Leave it all to me, mother; I feel as though I could do something now.

I am old enough to make money." "What can you do ?" "Now or never!" replied Bobby, whose mind had wandered from the scene to the busy world, where fortunes are made and lost every day.

"Now or never!" muttered he again.
"But, Bobby, you have not told me where you got all that gold." "Dinner is ready, I see, and I will tell you while we eat." Bobby had been a fishing, and to be hungry is a part of the fisherman's luck; so he seated himself at the table, and gave his mother a full account of all that had occurred at the bridge.
The fond mother trembled when she realized the peril her son had incurred for the sake of the young lady; but her maternal heart swelled with admiration in view of the generous deed, and she thanked God that she was the mother of such a son.

She felt more confidence in him then than she had ever felt before, and she realized that he would be the stay and the staff of her declining years.
Bobby finished his dinner, and seated himself on the front door step.