But what made him do what he did last year?
I say it was because his chief--he was in the Education Office you know--was a Dissenter, and a jam manufacturer, and had mutton-chop whisker.

Manisty just couldn't do what he was told by a man like that.

He's as proud as Lucifer.

I once heard him tell a friend of mine that he didn't know how to obey anybody--he'd never learnt.

That's because they didn't send him to a public school--worse luck; that was his mother's doing, I believe.