I dare say I might have done better for him, but, indeed, I have tried." "I am sure you have, Norman.

I spoke hastily, my boy--you will not think more of it.

When a thing like this comes on a man, he hardly knows what he says." "If Harry were here," said Norman, anxious to turn from the real loss and grief, as well as to talk away that feeling of being apologised to, "it would all do better.

He would make a link with Tom, but I have so little, naturally, to do with the second form, that it is not easy to keep him in sight." "Yes, yes, I know that very well.

It is no one's fault but my own; I should not have sent him there without knowing him better.