"Most true."

"Ambitious?"

"Or his looks belie him."

"Faithful, trusty, active, helpful, in every way devoted to my father's
service and his work."

"With Sancho, I believe it all because your worship says so."

"Well, this man has just been discharged from my father's employ because
seven hundred and forty-two other men gave notice to quit if he
remained."

"The reason?"

"His skin."

"The reason is not 'so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door, but
it is enough.' Of course they wouldn't work with him, and my uncle
Surrey, begging your pardon, should not have attempted anything so
Quixotic."

"His skin covering so many excellent qualities, and these qualities
gaining recognition,--that was the cause. They worked with him so long
as he was a servant of servants: so soon as he demonstrated that he
could strike out strongly and swim, they knocked him under; and, proving
that he could walk alone, they ran hastily to shove him to the wall."