I don't think Mrs.Hamilton has any blind side, and the only way in which I intend to commend myself to her favor is to be faithful to her interests." "Oh, you're mighty innocent; but all the same, you know how to feather your own nest." "In a good sense, I hope I do.

I don't suppose anyone else will take the trouble to feather it for me.

I think honesty and fidelity are good policy, don't you ?" "I don't pretend to be an angel," answered Conrad sullenly.
"Nor I," said Ben, laughing.
Some days later, Conrad came to Ben one day, looking more cordial than usual.
"Ben," he said, "I have a favor to ask of you." "What is it ?" "Will you grant it ?" "I want to know first what it is." "Lend me five dollars ?" Ben stared at Conrad in surprise.

He had just that amount, after sending home money to his mother, but he intended that afternoon to deposit three dollars of it in the savings bank, feeling that he ought to be laying up money while he was so favorably situated.
"How do you happen to be short of money ?" he asked.
"That doesn't need telling.

I have only four dollars a week pocket money, and I am pinched all the time." "Then, supposing I lent you the money, how could you manage to pay me back out of this small allowance ?" "Oh, I expect to get some money in another way, but I cannot unless you lend me the money." "Would you mind telling me how ?" "Why, the fact is, a fellow I know--that is, I have heard of him--has just drawn a prize of a thousand dollars in a Havana lottery.