I don't much mind." Put in this form, it was impossible to carry out his intentions; and so Mr Benson told the lad he might go--that he would speak to him another time.

Leonard went away, more subdued in spirit than if he had been whipped.

Sally lingered a moment.

She stopped to add: "I think it's for them without sin to throw stones at a poor child, and cut up good laburnum-branches to whip him.

I only do as my betters do, when I call Leonard's mother Mrs Denbigh." The moment she had said this she was sorry; it was an ungenerous advantage after the enemy had acknowledged himself defeated.