He never will let Everett know whether he is to regard himself as a rich man or a poor man." "He gives him an allowance." "Because he cannot help himself.

To you he does not do even as much as that, because he can help himself.

I have chosen to leave it to him and he has done nothing.

But this is not quite fair, and he must be told so.

I don't think he could be told in more dutiful language." Emily did not like the idea of telling her father anything which he might not like to hear; but her husband's behests were to her in these, her early married days, quite imperative..