It was Penrod, tactfully withdrawing from what promised to be a family scene of unusual painfulness.
Mr.Kinosling seized him by the shoulders and, giving way to emotion, shook him viciously.
"You horrible boy!" exclaimed Mr.Kinosling.

"You ruffianly creature! Do you know what's going to happen to you when you grow up?
Do you realize what you're going to BE!" With flashing eyes, the indignant boy made know his unshaken purpose.

He shouted the reply: "A minister!".