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'Now, don't let us bother about it, father, or have any row on the

subject I have fully made up my entleman And there's an end of it' 'But there is not an end of it, sir,' returned the Father 'But there

shall not be an end of it You have made up your mind? You haveon like that?'

'Because,' returned the Father, in a great heat, 'you had no right to

make up your mind to what is monstrous, to what is--ha--i, sir Don't ask eneral principle involved here, which rises even

above considerations of--ha--hospitality I object to the assertion made

by my son I--ha--I personally repel it'

'Why, what is it to you, father?' returned the son, over his shoulder

'What is it to me, sir? I have a--hum--a spirit, sir, that will not

endure it I,' he took out his pocket-handkerchief again and dabbed his

face 'I aed and insulted by it Let me suppose the case that I

myself may at a certain time--ha--or times, have made a--hum--an appeal,

and a properly-worded appeal, and a delicate appeal, and an urgent

appeal to some individual for a small temporary accommodation Let me

suppose that that accommodation could have been easily extended, and was

not extended, and that that individual infored to