Adversity would temper a girl like her; prosperity may--spoil her." "There is a boy, too, isn't there ?" "Oh, Buddy! He's away at school.

He'll make a hand, or--well, if he doesn't, I'll beat the foolishness out of him.

I've assumed complete responsibility for Buddy, and he'll be a credit to me." There was a tone in Gray's voice when he spoke of the Briskows that gave Barbara Parker a wholly new insight into his character; it was with a feeling that she knew him and liked him better that she said: "You think a lot of those nesters, don't you ?" "More than they believe, and more than I would have thought possible," he readily declared.

"I'm a lonesome institution.

There's nobody dependent upon me; I owe no bills, no gratitude, and I've canceled the obligations that others owe me.