I have not been wont to need to ask my friends to visit me.

They swarm about my rooms like bees round honey, so long as there be honey to gather from my hive.

How do you think you are going to live, my young friend, when your store of guineas is melted, if you have not learned that noble art of picking and stealing, which our young blades of fashion practise with such success and grace ?" So the acquaintance was renewed, Tom quickly falling again beneath the spell of the strong personality of Lord Claud.

He had not entirely ceased his sword practice with Captain Raikes during the past weeks, and now was to be found at his hall almost every day.
Lord Claud himself would sometimes come and watch and applaud; and more than once, as the two had walked away together, linked arm in arm, his patron had said: "Good swordsmanship is an art to be greatly prized.

It makes a man respected and feared.