I am come here to defend myself." "Very well, I am here to listen." Self-justification is a vigorous quality: Julius spoke with eloquence, and with a superficial show of right.

The rector heard him patiently, offering no comment, and permitting no disputation.

But, when Julius was finished, he answered with a certain stern warmth, "Say what you will, squire, you and I are of two ways of thinking.

You are in the wrong, and you will be hard set to prove yourself in the right; and that is as true as gospel." "I am, at least, a gentleman, rector; and I know how to treat gentlewomen." "Gentle-man! Gentle-sinner, let me say! Will Satan care whether you be a peasant, or a star-and-garter gentleman?
Tut, tut! in my office I know nothing about gentlemen.

There are plenty of gentlemen with Beelzebub; and they will ring all eternity for a drop of water, and never find a servant to answer them." "Sir, though you are a clergyman, you have no right to speak to me in such a manner." "Because I am a clergyman, I have the right.