"Save taking shoes and stockings off for wading." "Vincent, my dear!" cried his mother, "how absurd! You would look nice the next time Michael Ladelle came for you." "He'd do the same, mother.

He always imitates me." "Yes; you're a nice pair," said the Doctor.

"I never saw such young savages." "You're too hard upon them, Robert," said Mrs Burnet, laying her arm on her son's shoulder.

"It does not matter out in this wild place, where there is no one to see him but the fishing people; and see what a healthy, natural life it is for them." "Healthy! natural!" cried the Doctor sharply.

"So you want to see him grow up into a sort of Peter the Wild Boy, madam ?" "No," said Mrs Burnet, exchanging an affectionate glance with her sun-tanned son.