Stop me once more, and you'll have to find the rest of my story out for yourself." "I'm very sorry," said I.
"So you ought to be.

When it came to the time, however, Tom's resolutions failed him.

Gus and his friends called as usual that evening and laughed him to scorn.

He dare not quarrel with them, dare not resist them.

He crumpled up the letter in his pocket and never posted it, and that night returned to his evil ways without a struggle.
"For a week or two, however, he kept up appearances at the hospital; but it could not last.