The fact is, you are half-afraid of this Slope, and would rather subject yourself to comparative poverty and discomfort than come to blows with a man who will trample on you, if you let him." "I certainly don't like coming to blows, if I can help it." "Nor I neither--but sometimes we can't help it.

This man's object is to induce you to refuse the hospital, that he may put some creature of his own into it; that he may show his power and insult us all by insulting you, whose cause and character are so intimately bound up with that of the chapter.

You owe it to us all to resist him in this, even if you have no solicitude for yourself.

But surely, for your own sake, you will not be so lily-livered as to fall into this trap which he has baited for you and let him take the very bread out of your mouth without a struggle." Mr.Harding did not like being called lily-livered, and was rather inclined to resent it.

"I doubt there is any true courage," said he, "in squabbling for money." "If honest men did not squabble for money, in this wicked world of ours, the dishonest men would get it all, and I do not see that the cause of virtue would be much improved.