To have him at hand may save you an upset or two.

He promised me to take care of your person all the way down as if you were his father." This camp-master was the Italian sailor whom all the Europeans in Sulaco, following Captain Mitchell's mispronunciation, were in the habit of calling Nostromo.

And indeed, taciturn and ready, he did take excellent care of his charge at the bad parts of the road, as Sir John himself acknowledged to Mrs.Gould afterwards..