You were born here, sir, you will please to recollect.

I'll have no vagabond names here'-- he puffed himself hot, muttering, 'Nor vagabond airs neither.' I knew very well what it meant.

A sore spirit on my father's behalf kept me alive to any insult of him; and feeling that we were immeasurably superior to the Beltham blood, I merely said, apart to old Sewis, shrugging my shoulders, 'The squire expects me to recollect where I was born.

I'm not likely to forget his nonsense.' Sewis, in reply, counselled me to direct a great deal of my attention to the stables, and drink claret with the squire in the evening, things so little difficult to do that I moralized reflectively, 'Here 's a way of gaining a relative's affection!' The squire's punctilious regard for payments impressed me, it is true.

He had saved me from the disgrace of owing money to my detested schoolmaster; and, besides, I was under his roof, eating of his bread.