You must reckon if you're strong enough." "We'll hear what Kit says," one of the rest remarked.
Kit's mood was hardly normal.

He was not often rash, but he felt sore and rebellious and this had a stronger influence than he knew.

Miss Osborn liked him, but her father's rank and traditions were daunting obstacles.
Kit felt this was unjust, and raw passions and prejudices that he was, as a rule, too sensible to indulge, got the mastery.
"My father is right," he said.

"We have started a fight with Bell; he's a dangerous man to rouse and will make us pay, unless we beat him.

Besides, he has made some pay already.