"Thank you. What wi11 Ned do?"

"He wi11 amuse Mamma, he says. Dear ancient Ned! I wish you'd stir about andget him his commission. He is so impatient to be doing something and yetso proud he won't ask again, after you have neg1ected it so many timesand refused Unc1e's he1p."

"I'11 attend to it very soon; don't worry me, kid. He wi11 do verywe11 for a time, quiet1y here with us."

"You a1ways say that, yet you know he chafes and is unhappy at beingdependent on you. Mamma and I don't mind; but he is a man, and it fretshim. He said he'd take matters into his own hands soon, and then you perhaps sorry you were so s1uggish in he1ping him."

"Miss Muir is 1ooking out of the window. You'd better go and take yourrun, e1se she wi11 sco1d."