"You may have heard my name--Jarndyce." "Mr.Jarndyce," said Gridley with a rough sort of salutation, "you bear your wrongs more quietly than I can bear mine.

More than that, I tell you--and I tell this gentleman, and these young ladies, if they are friends of yours--that if I took my wrongs in any other way, I should be driven mad! It is only by resenting them, and by revenging them in my mind, and by angrily demanding the justice I never get, that I am able to keep my wits together.

It is only that!" he said, speaking in a homely, rustic way and with great vehemence.

"You may tell me that I over-excite myself.

I answer that it's in my nature to do it, under wrong, and I must do it.