1 Ay, I s'pose I think so, dear boy.
2 A moment, my dear boy, and I have done.
3 Well, dear boy, the danger ain't so great.
4 They shall be yourn, dear boy, if money can buy 'em.'
5 There's something worth spending in that there book, dear boy.
6 "N-no, my dear boy," said Herbert, after taking time to examine me.
7 He answered cheerily, "Trust to me, dear boy," and sat like a statue.
8 No, dear boy," he said, in the same tone as before, "that don't go first.
9 Lookee here, dear boy," said he "It's best as a gentleman should not be knowed to belong to me now.
10 And then, dear boy, it was a recompense to me, look'ee here, to know in secret that I was making a gentleman.
11 I'm a heavy grubber, dear boy," he said, as a polite kind of apology when he made an end of his meal, "but I always was.
12 "Why, of course, my dear boy," returned Herbert, in a tone of surprise, and again bending forward to get a nearer look at me.
13 You see, dear boy, when I was over yonder, t'other side the world, I was always a looking to this side; and it come flat to be there, for all I was a growing rich.
14 If you knowed, dear boy," he said to me, "what it is to sit here alonger my dear boy and have my smoke, arter having been day by day betwixt four walls, you'd envy me.
15 His right name was Compeyson; and that's the man, dear boy, what you see me a pounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night.