I don't want anything grand.' 'He is vexed because he sent twice to the station for you yesterday.' 'I hate the kind of fellow who is always thinking of little grievances.

Such a man expects you to go like clockwork, and because you are not wound up just as he is, he insults you.

I shall ask him for a horse as I would any one else, and if he does not like it, he may lump it.' About half an hour after this he found his cousin.

'Can I have a horse to ride over to Caversham this afternoon ?' he said.
'Our horses never go out on Sunday,' said Roger.

Then he added, after a pause, 'You can have it.