"I knew you were worried all dinner-time.

You got something new on your mind besides Jim's bein' taken away like he was.

What's worryin' you now, papa ?" "Nothin'." She jeered feebly.

"N' tell ME that! You sat up to see Bibbs, didn't you ?" "He starts in at the shop again to-morrow morning," said Sheridan.
"Just the same as he did before ?" "Just pre-CISELY!" "How--how long you goin' to keep him at it, papa ?" she asked, timidly.
"Until he KNOWS something!" The unhappy man struck his palms together, then got to his feet and began to pace the room, as was his wont when he talked.

"He'll go back to the machine he couldn't learn to tend properly in the six months he was there, and he'll stick to it till he DOES learn it! Do you suppose that lummix ever asked himself WHY I want him to learn it?
No! And I ain't a-goin' to tell him, either! When he went there I had 'em set him on the simplest machine we got--and he stuck there! How much prospect would there be of his learnin' to run the whole business if he can't run the easiest machine in it?
I sent him there to make him THOROUGH.