But Dick, he'd nursed him all through, and he wouldn't hear of it.

'The boy's mine,' he says, 'and I'm going to look after him.' Mr.Fielding was very cross with him, but that didn't make no difference.

You see, Dick had got fond of him, and as for Robin, why, he just worshipped Dick.

So there it was left, and Dick gave up all his prospects to keep the boy with him.

He were reading for the law, you see, but he gave it all up and turned schoolmaster, so as he could live here and take care of young Robin." "Turned schoolmaster!" Juliet repeated the words.