She keeps me there whether I will or not, she makes me do many things--many things, surely--which I hate.

But Elizabeth has her way.

If I had gone with Beatrice, if I were to go to her now, I should be only a burden upon her." "You have no money, then ?" Tavernake remarked.
The professor shook his head sadly.
"Speculations, my young friend," he replied, "speculations undertaken solely with the object of making a fortune for my children.

I have had money and lost it." "Can't you earn any ?" Tavernake asked.

"Beatrice doesn't seem extravagant." The professor regarded this outspoken young man with an air of hurt dignity.
"If you will forgive me," he said.