The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. Чарльз Диккенс

      ‘Unhappy?’

      ‘I have my suspicions that he was,’ assented the Doctor, ‘once.’

      Francis Goodchild could not but observe that the Doctor accompanied these words with a benignant and protecting glance at their subject, in which there was much of the expression with which an attached father might have looked at a heavily afflicted son. Yet, that they were not father and son must have been plain to most eyes. The Assistant, on the other hand, turning presently to ask the Doctor some question, looked at him with a wan smile as if he were his whole reliance and sustainment in life.