He still had those large eyes clear before him, and was still fixed in his resolution to come back for them when some undefined point of his life should have passed by.
'Now,' said Dick Shand, as they were seated together in a third-class railway carriage on the following morning, 'now I feel that I am beginning life.' 'With proper resolutions, I hope, as to honesty, sobriety, and industry.' 'With a fixed determination to make a fortune, and come back, and be _facile princeps_ among all the Shands.

I have already made up my mind as to the sum I will give each of the girls, and the way I will start the two younger boys in business.

In the meantime let us light a pipe.'.