10/17 To your nature it would be almost impossible to hold your tongue. Your sense of justice would be so affronted that you would feel yourself compelled to discuss the injury done to you with all your intimate friends. But with your father your quarrel would be eternal. I made nothing of it, and, indeed, if he pertinaciously held his tongue on the subject, so should I." "But because he talks," said Harry, "why should you ?" "Why should he not ?" said Septimus Jones. "Upon my word I don't see the justice of it." "I am not speaking of justice, but of feeling." "Upon my word I wish you would hold your tongues about it; at any rate till my back is turned," said the old lady. |