He affected the same indifference as before, and frequently did not seem to hear the words of his enemy.

The hardest duty Tom had to do was to keep back the scathing retorts of which he thought so often, and which would have silenced Zeigler.

Nothing, indeed, is more difficult for a high-spirited person than to bridle his tongue under the lashings of another.

_How_ few of us are equal to the task!.