No; his father took his part, as any father in the world would do; even if the great man, the young lady's father, should happen to be his own landlord." A very black suspicion crossed the mind of Dan, for Carne possessed the art of suggesting vile suspicions: might Admiral Darling have discovered something, and requested Dan's father to correct him?
It was certain that the Admiral, so kind of heart, would never have desired such severity; but he might have told Captain Tugwell, with whom he had a talk almost every time they met, that his eldest son wanted a little discipline; and the Club might have served as a pretext for this, when the true crime must not be declared, by reason of its enormity.

Dan closed his teeth, and English air grew bitter in his mouth, as this belief ran through him.
"Good-night, my young friend; I am beginning to recover," Carne continued, briskly, for he knew that a nail snaps in good oak, when the hammer falls too heavily.

"What is a little bit of outrage, after all?
When I have been in England a few years more, I shall laugh at myself for having loved fair play and self-respect, in this innocent young freshness.

We must wag as the world does; and you know the proverb, What makes the world wag, but the weight of the bag ?" "But if you were more in earnest, sir--or at least--I mean, if you were not bound here by property and business, and an ancient family, and things you could not get away from, and if you wanted only to be allowed fair play, and treated as a man by other men, and be able to keep your own money when you earned it, or at least to buy your own victuals with it--what would you try to do, or what part of the country would you think best to go to ?" "Dan, you must belong to a very clever family.

It is useless to shake your head--you must; or you never could put such questions, so impossible to answer.