'What's in the grain, you know.

He couldn't change.

He would be a gentleman, and nothing 'd stop him.' 'And I shouldn't wonder but what that young chap out in Portugal 'll want to be one, too; though he didn't bid fair to be so fine a man as his father.' 'More of a scholar,' remarked Kilne.

'That I call his worst fault--shilly-shallying about that young chap.

I mean his.' Kilne stretched a finger toward the dead man's house.