You may put any meaning on my words that you think proper.

I am accustomed to things of that sort, and I pay no attention whatever, when I am perfectly certain that I am right." "I see," replied Firm, applying one finger to the side of his nose in deep contemplation, which, of all his manners, annoyed me most.

"I see how it is; Miss Rema is always perfectly certain that she is right, and the whole of the rest of the world quite wrong.

Well, after all, there is nothing like holding a first-rate opinion of one's self." "You are not what I thought of you," I cried, being vexed beyond bearance by such words, and feeling their gross injustice.

"If you wish to say any thing more, please to leave it until you recover your temper.
I am not quite accustomed to rudeness." With these words, I drew away and walked off, partly in earnest and partly in joke, not wishing to hear another word; and when I looked back, being well out of sight, there he sat still, with his head on his hands, and my heart had a little ache for him.
However, I determined to say no more, and to be extremely careful.