While setting the shaving necessaries in order on the dressing-table, he went further--he winked gravely at himself in the looking-glass.
"You've made wonderful progress the last few days, sir," he remarked.

"I always told Missis Marie that it would do you a lot of good to have Mr.
Gordon to heart you up with his cheery ways--and Miss Gordon too, sir." "Yes, but they would not have been much good without all your care before they came.

I had turned the corner a week ago--I felt it myself." Joseph grinned--an honest, open grin of self-satisfaction.

He was not one of those persons who like their praise bestowed with subtlety.
"Wonderful!" he repeated to himself as he went to the well in the garden for his master's bath-water.

"Wonderful! but I don't understand things--not bein' a marryin' man." During the last few days Jack's progress had been rapid enough even to satisfy Joseph.