He never looked ugly, save when he encountered Robert's scowling face, and then he felt unpleasant sensations about the shoulders.
[Illustration: The door was thrown open and the boy Robert entered to take a part in the scene.] Grinding his teeth in rage, he said: "I will have my revenge on him when he is under my control." Hugh Price was not in a great hurry.

He bided his time, and not even a frown ruffled his brow.

He greeted the children with sunny smiles calculated to win their hearts, and under ordinary circumstances they might have done so.

But from the first he was regarded with aversion, as an intruder upon their sanctuary and love.

The dislike was mutual, for, though Price concealed his feelings, there rankled in his breast an enmity which he could not smother.
Robert was open in his resentment.