His three children will be quite grown up now, poor things.

Well, thank you very much, Mr Armstrong.

I hope we shall always be good friends for dear Roger's sake.

Good-bye." Roger, as may be imagined, had not waited a whole week before ascertaining his tutor's intentions.
He had been a good deal staggered at first by his father's will, with its curious provisions; but, amongst a great deal that was perplexing and disappointing in it, he derived no little comfort from the fact that Mr Armstrong was to be one of his legal protectors.
"I don't see, you know," said he, as he lounged against his tutor's mantelpiece one evening.

"I don't see why a fellow of nineteen can't be trusted to behave himself without being tied up in this way.