Now then for me, Richie.' My father went on in this wise excitedly: 'I was laying the foundation of your fortune here, my boy.

Heavens! when I was in that bronze shell I was astonished only at my continence in not bursting.

You have grown,--you have shot up and filled out.

I register my thanks to your grandfather Beltham; the same, in a minor degree, to Captain Jasper Welsh.

Between that man Rippenger and me there shall be dealings.