I knew she'd be glad to see me--but, bless you, she and mother cared more for Jim's little finger than for my whole body.

Some people have a way of gettin' the biggest share of nearly everybody's liking that comes next or anigh 'em.

I don't know how it's done, or what works it.

But so it is; and Jim could always count on every man, woman, and child, wherever he lived, wearing his colours and backing him right out, through thick and thin.
When I came up Aileen was saying-- 'Oh, Jim, my dear old Jim! now I'll die happy; mother and I were only talking of you to-day, and wondering whether we should see you at Christmas--and now you have come.

Oh, Dick! and you too.