You have spent the evening in Mobile when he told you not to go there.

I could tell you instances all day in which you disobeyed him, and mother too," continued the soldier warmly.
"That was different." "It was different; and you could obey your father in a bad cause, but not in a good one.

I am heartily ashamed of you, and I don't feel willing to own you as a brother of mine." "But my father told me that I could better serve the good cause by going with him than I could by joining the army." "And you were willing to go with him, for then you could keep out of danger.

Father is getting old, and he is not fit to serve in the army; and you have been his pet since you were born.

But that is no excuse for you; and if I can get you back into the army, I mean to do so." Percy was afraid he might succeed, and he did not feel as confident as he had been; and he lost, for the time, some of his self-possession.