"O, for Goad's sake, no more of the Signor!" "You and my father are great friends, are you not ?" asked Archie once.
"There is no man that I more respect, Archie," replied Lord Glenalmond.
"He is two things of price.

He is a great lawyer, and he is upright as the day." "You and he are so different," said the boy, his eyes dwelling on those of his old friend, like a lover's on his mistress's.
"Indeed so," replied the judge; "very different.

And so I fear are you and he.

Yet I would like it very ill if my young friend were to misjudge his father.

He has all the Roman virtues: Cato and Brutus were such; I think a son's heart might well be proud of such an ancestry of one." "And I would sooner he were a plaided herd," cried Archie, with sudden bitterness.
"And that is neither very wise, nor I believe entirely true," returned Glenalmond.