It'll make all the difference to me.

I was getting as big a cad as any of those fellows there, for you're bound to be sociable.

But you're a nicer sort, and it's a good job for me, I can tell you." Apart from the flattery of these words, there was a touch of earnestness in the boy's voice which struck a sympathetic chord in Reginald's nature, and drew him mysteriously to this new hour-old acquaintance.

He told him of his own hard fortunes, and by what means he had come down to his present position.

Gedge listened to it all eagerly.
"Were you really captain of the fifth at your school ?" said he, almost reverentially.