a goodly sum of money by it but has acquired too a distrust of his own mother and a contempt for his own kind .
In the course of her rapid journeyjourneyshe had already settledsettleupon everything that had to be done ; or rather , to speak truly , had rehearsedrehearseeverything , according to the habit already acquiredacquireby a quick mind , a good deal occupied with itself .
This new interest was a valued novelty in whistling , which he had just acquiredacquirefrom a negro , and he was suffering to practise it un-disturbed .