"Why do you wish to see it ?" "I wish to see it, Richard, because I suspect that the name of my Cousin Jack Stilwell is upon it." "Oh, mother!" cried Alice, who had been listening in surprise to the conversation, suddenly starting to her feet; "you don't mean that they have pressed Jack to be a soldier." "Leave the room, Alice," her father said angrily.

"This is no concern of a child like you." When the door closed behind the girl he said to his wife: "Naturally his name is in the list.

I selected fifty of the most worthless fellows in Southampton, and his name was the first which occurred to me.

What then ?" "Then I tell you, Richard," Dame Anthony said, rising, "that you are a wretch, a mean, cowardly, cruel wretch.

You have vented your spite upon Jack, whom I love as if he were my own son, because he would not put up with the tyranny of your foreman and yourself.