He prides himself on his power of self-control, and after all what does it amount to?
It simply means this, that he has an iron constitution, and can drink five times as much as I can without showing its effects, and to-day if Mr.R.N.would ask him to sign the total-abstinence pledge, he wouldn't hear to it.

Yes I am ready to sign any articles he will bring, even if it is to sign never to enter this house, or see his face; but my mother--poor mother, I am sorry for her sake." Just then his mother entered the room.
"My son." "Mother." "Just what I feared has come to pass.

I have dreaded more than anything else this collision with your father." "Now mother don't be so serious about this matter.

Father's law office does not take in the whole world.

I shall either set up for myself in A.P., or go West." "Oh! don't talk of going away, I think I should die of anxiety if you were away." "Well, as I passed down the street yesterday I saw there was an office to let in Frazier's new block, and I think I will engage it and put out my sign.