Back she shall come!" "Give her up!" cried Richard.
"Ay, that's it!" said the farmer.

"Give her up." The young man checked the annihilation of time that was on his mouth.
"You sent her away to protect her from me, then ?" he said savagely.
"That's not quite it, but that'll do," rejoined the farmer.
"Do you think I shall harm her, sir ?" "People seem to think she'll harm you, young gentleman," the farmer said with some irony.
"Harm me--she?
What people ?" "People pretty intimate with you, sir." "What people?
Who spoke of us ?" Richard began to scent a plot, and would not be balked.
"Well, sir, look here," said the farmer.

"It ain't no secret, and if it be, I don't see why I'm to keep it.

It appears your education's peculiar!" The farmer drawled out the word as if he were describing the figure of a snake.

"You ain't to be as other young gentlemen.