Every single fellow in the store but me is going to the theatre, and I am awful lonesome up there alone." "It is a wonder you are not going too," said Edward.
"No, it ain't.

I can keep a promise once in a while, I reckon.

That Ray Minturn can do anything with a fellow, and I was fool enough to promise him that I wouldn't go.

Come, go up home with me; do, that's a good fellow!" "No," said Edward decidedly, "I can't." "Now, Tip Lewis, I think you're real mean; you don't never come to see me no more than if I was in Guinea.

You act as if you were ashamed of me, and I keep my word and behave myself, too; and you're a mean, chicken-hearted fellow, if you're ashamed to notice me now-a-days, just because you board in a big house and dress like a dandy." "Poh!" said Edward; "what nonsense that is! I'd look well being ashamed of any one that Minturn talked with.