You found it for Gilbert--did he ask you where you got it?
Why should you ask me ?" "Well, I won't; but you are mighty good to me, Uncle George, and I am very grateful to you." The relief was not overwhelming, for the burden of the debt had not been heavy.

It was only the sting of his father's refusal that had hurt.

He had always believed that the financial tangle would be straightened out somehow.
"No!--damn it!--you are not grateful.

You sha'n't be grateful!" cried St.George with a boyish laugh, seating himself that he might fill his pipe the better from a saucer of tobacco on the table.

"If you were grateful it would spoil it all.