Hall Caine

“ In doing a good turn for you my only conditions are that you shall do a good turn for your husband."
"You needn't tempt me to that, Mr. Crow. Only tell me what I can do for Larry, and it's done."
"Then send him away from you."
"Why send him away?"
"He'll do no good while he is here."
"But where could he go to?"
"To the whaling."
"The whaling?"
"Hush! It's to be a great secret—that's the bargain. There's nothing a man need be ashamed of in the whaling industry. If it makes black smoke it makes white silver too." ”

“ Harry Crow, of all men. They call him Captain Crow now, and he has come back from the whaling a rich man, I hear. Well, riches have wings—prodigious ones seemingly. He has a bright little boy they tell me, about the age of our Lucy, but his wife is dead, and his wealth is no good to him. Well, I forgive him, poor devil. I am happier than he is, in spite of my duns and debts. But what a funny world it is though!"
Larry laughs and calls for more drink. At that moment an old man carrying a lantern, a spade, and a pick crosses the market-place. It is the sexton. Larry hails him and laughs. ”

“ How it tempts a man, betrays him, destroys him! 'Tramp the streets and beg my bread from door to door.' They may, for all the help I'll give them. They'll pack out of this house, at all events. It will do for little Harry one of these days. What a whirligig the world is to be sure. ”