I believe a deal that was said of him wasn't true, and nothing won't ever make me believe it.' These kind of people will stand up for you all the days of your life, and stick to you till the very last moment, no matter what you turn out to be.

Well, there's something pleasant in it; and it makes you think human nature ain't quite such a low and paltry thing as some people tries to make out.

Anyhow, when we went away our good little landlady and her sister was that sorry to lose us, as you'd have thought they was our blood relations.

As for Jim, every one in the house was fit to cry when he went off, from the dogs and cats upwards.

Jim never was in no house where everybody didn't seem to take naturally to him.