6/19 He flushed to the temples but forced himself to maintain silence. He sat there in this uncomfortable stillness some time, then got up and went out. He saw that their plain purpose had been to insult him. He found the young tinner up there, alone and brooding, and entered into conversation with him. They were pretty fairly matched, now, in unpopularity and general ill-luck and misery, and they had no trouble in meeting upon this common ground with advantage and something of comfort to both. |