It was too good news to hear from the boy's own lips that he was determined to break loose from these bad friends, to need to know any more.
"I don't know how it is," said Wyndham, after another pause.

"It seems so much easier for some fellows to keep square than for others.

I've made up my mind I'd do right a dozen times this term, but it's never come off." "It's hard work, I know," said Riddell, sympathisingly.
"Yet it seems easy enough to you.

I say, I wish you'd look sharp after me for a week or so, Riddell, till I get a good start." Riddell laughed.
"A lot of good that would do you! The best person to look sharp after young Wyndham is young Wyndham himself." "Of course I know," said the boy, "but I've sort of lost confidence in myself." "We can't any of us stand by ourselves," said the captain.

"I know I can't.