That's the way I look at it." "Then I advise you to look at it the other way, and leave me to take care of myself.

Come in here, I want to speak to you." Everett followed his father into a dingy back parlour, which was fitted up with book shelves and was generally called the study, but which was gloomy and comfortless because it was seldom used.

"I have had your friend Lopez with me at my chambers to-day.

I don't like your friend Lopez." "I am sorry for that, sir." "He is a man as to whom I should wish to have a good deal of evidence before I would trust him to be what he seems to be.

I dare say he's clever." "I think he's more than clever." "I dare say;--and well instructed in some respects." "I believe him to be a thorough linguist, sir." "I dare say.