"When you have taken your degree, I need you." "I have claims enough to keep you busy." "I want somebody with brains; I have thought you had them, once or twice." "And remember you are your mother's only son."
Please God, he would remember!
XXIV
The professor had the faults of an absent-minded man, and the peculiarities of a reticent one! Once his confidence was gained, there was little he withheld, and he never quite remembered what he had told or not told, and so, sometimes, blurted out a secret unwittingly.
It was with no thought of mischief that he said to Montague, "The fellow's wife is dead!"
"Whose?" asked that young man in astonishment.
"Why, Lawson's!"