I'm too much your son to love any woman long when I have learned to despise her.

I came home to apologize, and to place myself under your orders, if you will forgive me, and find something useful for me to do." "So I will, my boy; there's my hand.

Now out with it.

What did you go away for, since it wasn't a petticoat ?" "Well, sir, I am afraid I shall offend you." "Not a bit of it, after I've given you my hand.

Come, now, what was it ?" Walter pondered and hesitated, but at last hit upon a way to explain.
"Sir," said he, "until I was six years old they used to give me peaches from Oddington House; but one fine day the supply stopped, and I uttered a small howl to my nurse.