It's plain to me that my duty at present is to take care of you all, and though God knows how I set my mind upon going into the army and being a soldier like my father, I will give it up if it means leaving Charlie here under him." "And do you suppose, sir," Mr.Mulready asked with intense bitterness, "that I am going to keep you here doing nothing all your life, while you are pleased to watch me ?" "No, I don't," Ned replied.

"I shall get a clerkship or something in one of the mills, and I shall have Charlie to live with me until he is old enough to leave school, and then I will go away with him to America or somewhere.

As to mother, I can do nothing for her.

I think my being here makes it worse for her, for I believe you tyrannize over her all the more because you think it hurts me.

I know you hated me from the first just as I hated you.