This is not a character that I can suffer to develop itself beneath my eyes without an effort at improvement.

You must endeavour, sir, to change it.

We must endeavour to change it for you.' 'I beg your pardon, sir,' I faltered.

'I have never meant to be sullen since I came back.' 'Don't take refuge in a lie, sir!' he returned so fiercely, that I saw my mother involuntarily put out her trembling hand as if to interpose between us.

'You have withdrawn yourself in your sullenness to your own room.