I thank you." He turned and went down the steps without giving her a glance, while she sat upright and quiet, with wide-open eyes, the child crying querulously in her arms.

At the gate he came suddenly upon Leonard, who had been dodging about there and failed to get out of the way in time.
"Do not be brutal, Mr.Willems," said Leonard, hurriedly.

"It is unbecoming between white men with all those natives looking on." Leonard's legs trembled very much, and his voice wavered between high and low tones without any attempt at control on his part.

"Restrain your improper violence," he went on mumbling rapidly.

"I am a respectable man of very good family, while you.