At any rate, I wish I had begun life as a poor boy, and worked my way up to competence.

Then I could understand and remember the temptations of poverty.

I am afraid of my own heart becoming hardened as my father's is.

You have no notion of his passionate severity to-day, Maggie! It was quite a new thing even to me!" "It will only be for a short time," said she.

"He must be much grieved about this man." "If I thought I could ever grow as hard and different to the abject entreaties of a criminal as my father has been this morning--one whom he has helped to make, too--I would go off to Australia at once.