“I want my life to be beaten gold just in order to make it a fitting setting for yours. " "And loving me, you fought me, avoided all my traps! I'm glad I've been so unhappy. " "You're a noble-hearted little fellow, Thames," rejoined Wood, casting a look of pride and affection at his adopted son, whose head he gently patted; "and give promise of a glorious manhood. I have come to take you home; and hereafter my word will be the law. There’s something— something ADULT about you.