Never before did he feel the weakness of the moral power of a just cause when opposed to brutal obstinacy.

Still he did not retreat from his position.

"Did you hear what I said ?" he cried.

"Leave this place!" "You are not master here," said the other, still preserving his defiant attitude, "and you have no right to order me away.

I am not going." Despite his inferiority in size, despite his gentlemanly instincts, and despite his prudent desire not to make an exhibition of himself before Miss March and the household, it is probable that Lawrence's anger would have assumed some form of physical manifestation, had not Mrs Keswick appeared suddenly on the porch.