Caddy Buddy books

) Nothing can happen amiss to the wise and good."
"Then I am neither wise nor good, for I have lost my all, and it comes
confoundedly amiss to me."
"Your all? That's what the shoemaker said; but he bought a new one for
six-pence. But, how happened it?"
"By my folly."
"I knew that, of course; but I wanted to know what folly in particular."
"I trusted it to a man whom I thought not only honest, but my friend,
and he has proved a scoundrel."
"You shouldn't have led him into temptation. You are _particeps
criminis_, and the partaker is as bad as the thief. Don't trust without
taking security, my friend; it's offering a premium to crime. Consider
your guilt now! Think of the family into whose innocent bosom you have
brought sin and remorse! Who is the luckless person?"
"Sandford!"
"I knew it. I expected it. He was too good by half. I didn't blame him
for his widow-and-orphan business; somebody must do it; but I made up my
mind some time ago that he would come to grief."
"Prophets are always plenty after the event."
"True, my friend.


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