If I intruded upon your daughter, so as to justify her in knocking me down, Captain Anerley, it was because--well I won't say, Mary, I won't say; we have all been young; and our place is to know better." "Sir, you are a gentleman," cried Popplewell with heat; "here is my hand, and you may trespass on my premises, without bringing any attorney." "Did you say her eighth baby?
Oh, Commander Carroway," Mrs.Popplewell began to whisper; "what a most interesting situation! Oh, I see why you have such high color, Sir." "Madam, it is enough to make me pale.

At the same time I do like sympathy; and my dear wife loves the smell of tan." "We have retired, Sir, many years ago, and purchased a property near the seaside; and from the front gate you must have seen--But oh, I forgot, captain, you came through the hedge, or at any rate down the row of kidney-beans." "I want to know the truth," shouted Stephen Anerley, who had been ploughing through his brow into his brain, while he kept his eyes fixed upon his daughter's, and there found abashment, but no abasement; "naught have I to do with any little goings on, or whether an action was a gentleman's or not.

That question belongs to the regulars, I wand, or to the folk who have retired.

Nobbut a farmer am I, in little business; but concerning of my children I will have my say.

All of you tell me what is this about my Mary." As if he would drag their thoughts out of them, he went from one to another with a hard quick glance, which they all tried to shun; for they did not want to tell until he should get into a better frame of mind.
And they looked at Mistress Anerley, to come forth and take his edge off; but she knew that when his eyes were so, to interfere was mischief.
But Carroway did not understand the man.
"Come, now, Anerley," the bold lieutenant said; "what are you getting into such a way about?
I would sooner have lost the hundred pounds twice over, and a hundred of my own--if so be I ever had it--than get little Mary into such a row as this.