If you conduct yourself prudently, you may become dearer to me than this wicked young man." "I should be sorry to rise on my cousin's ruin.

I would rather gain your respect on any other terms." This remark made him wince.
"Foolish boy! How blind you are to your own interest.

You belong to a family famous for playing the fool.

It runs in the blood of the Monctons." Starting from his seat, he paced the room for some minutes, as if in deep communion with himself.
"Geoffrey," said he at last, "from this day I adopt you as my son.

I exempt you from the common drudgeries of the office, and will engage masters to instruct you in the fashionable accomplishments which are deemed necessary to complete the education of a gentleman." I was mute with astonishment.
"Trifling as these things may appear to the man of science and the candidate for literary honours, they are not without their use to the professional student.