Say what you please about me, but not one word against her.

I will take you from college and put you to sweeping the floor of this office at twenty dollars a month, and make you live on your salary, too, or starve, if you say one other word." Ferdy's face blanched at the implacable anger that blazed in his father's eyes, but even more at the coldness of the gleam.

It made him shiver.
A little later young Wickersham entered his father's office, and though he was not much liked by the older clerks, it soon appeared that he had found a congenial occupation and one for which he had a natural gift.
For the first time in his life he appeared inclined to work..