People know it, too, and I am ashamed to show my face for the talk." When he seemed to have finished, I asked: "How long since you learned my real character ?" This spurred him to new wrath, and he exclaimed: "There now, that's the next of it.

You will go and tell that I've abused you.

It's not me.

I never suspected your honesty, but my mother, yes, my poor old mother.

I would not care, if you could only behave yourself before my mother!" I sat leaning my elbows on my table with my head in my hands, and the words "ruined Samuel" became a refrain.