I do not ask you to apologise to him, but I should like you to run over yesterday's business in your own mind, and where you feel conscientiously that you were in the wrong I should like you to show Brookes that you regret that portion of what you said.

One moment, and I've done.

I want you to recollect that he is a man of fifty, while you are only about sixteen.

Do we understand each other ?" "Oh yes, father," cried the boy, earnestly.
"Then that unpleasant business is at an end.

Did you get your specimens yesterday ?" "No," cried Nic; "the quarrel yesterday upset me, and I could only go and wander about in the bush thinking about it.