You could not have foreseen what was coming, when you came over here; and you thought that it would be a good thing for me to accompany you, for a time.

You did what you thought was best, and which I think was best.

Well, if it doesn't turn out just what we expected, you cannot blame yourself for that.

Why, if you were to ask me to come for a walk, and a tree fell on me as we were going along and killed me, you would hardly blame yourself because you asked me to come; and this is just the same.
"At any rate, if I do get killed, which I don't mean to be if I can help it, there is no one else who will take it very much to heart, except yourself.

There are plenty of them at home and, now that I have been away nearly two years, they must almost have forgotten my existence." "I consider you a very foolish boy," Patsey said, gravely.