You know Richard very well, I believe ?" he said, turning a sudden look on me, which would have been very disconcerting to an older person, or one more acquainted with the world.
"O, very well indeed," I said with great simplicity.

"You know he is such a favorite with my uncle, and he is a great deal at the house." "Well he may be a favorite, for he is built exactly on his model; at seventy, if I am not hung for debt before I reach it, I shall look to see him just a second Mr.Leonard Greer." I made a gesture of dissent.

"I don't think he is in the least like Uncle Leonard, and I don't think he cares at all for money." "O, Miss Pauline, don't you believe him if he says he doesn't.

I'm his younger brother, whom he has lectured and been hard on for these twenty-seven years, and I know more about it than anybody else." "Why, is Mr.Richard Vandermarck twenty-seven years old ?" I said with much surprise.
"Twenty-nine his next birthday, and I am twenty-seven.

Why, did he pass himself off for younger?
That's an excellent thing against him." "No; he did not pass himself off for anything in the matter of age.