Part 1 (2/2)
”My dear Robert, you are not in earnest?”
”Ah, but I aain: clothes will not”
”All right, father; I shan't s off for wading”
”Vincent, my dear!” cried his mother, ”how absurd! You would look nice the next time Michael Ladelle came for you”
”He'd do the same, mother He always imitates me”
”Yes; you're a nice pair,” said the Doctor ”I never saw such young savages”
”You're too hard upon the her arm on her son's shoulder ”It does not matter out in this wild place, where there is no one to see hi people; and see what a healthy, natural life it is for them”
”Healthy! natural!” cried the Doctor sharply ”So you want to see hirow up into a sort of Peter the Wild Boy,an affectionate glance with her sun-tanned son ”Peter the Wild Boy did not have a college tutor to teach him the classics, did he, Vince?”
”No, hing
”For sha her head at the boy reprovingly ”You do not rily ”I won't have any lects his studies shamefully”
”No, no, indeed, dear,” cried Mrs Burnet ”You don't kno hard he works”
”Oh yes, I do: at egging, cli I'll have noschool in Ger hi Mr Deane sets me to do, father,” said the boy; ”and I do try hard”
”Yes--to break your neck or drown yourself Look here, sir, when are you going to pay me my bill?”
”Your bill, father? I don't knohat youThat's been owing two years”
”When
”But, I say, don't sendhere so olden moments of boyhood, sir”
”But I don't, father,” cried Vince ”I really do work hard at everything Mr Deane sets o out He never finds fault”
”Bah! You're getting too big to think of going out to play with Mike Ladelle”
”But you said, father, that you liked to see a felloork hard at play as well as study, and that 'all work and no play made Jack a dull boy'”
”Jack!” cried the Doctor, with his face wrinkling up, as he tried to look very severe ”Yes Jack But you're not Jack: he was some common fisherentleman