You understand ?" "Yes," said the little man, starting up in great wrath.

"I understand, and it's a--bom--inable.

I th--thought you were my friend, and a m--man of h--honor." "So I am, and that is why I warn you in time.

If you quarrel with Miss Clifford, and leave this place in a pet, just see what risks we both run, you and I.My father will be always at me, and I shall not be able to insist on your prior claim; he will say you have abandoned it.

Julia will take the huff, and you know beautiful women will do strange things--mad things--when once pique enters their hearts.