"It's just like them." "I wish I could make your father see it," said Mrs.Preston, "but he seems prepossessed in her favor." "If he can give a hundred dollars to her, he can give me a little extra money; I'm going to ask him." So he did the same evening.
"Will you give me ten dollars, father ?" he asked.
"What for ?" "Oh, for various things.

I need it." "I give you an allowance of three dollars a week." "I have a good many expenses." "That will meet all your reasonable expenses.

I was far from having as much money as that when I was of your age." "I don't see why you won't give me the money," said Godfrey, discontentedly.
"I don't think you need it." "You are generous enough to others." "To whom do you refer ?" "You give plenty of money to that Irish boy and his mother." "They have both rendered me great services.

The boy saved me from being robbed.

The mother, in all probability, saved me from falling a victim to smallpox.