"If you will look for yourself, I think you will see why I am dissatisfied." "Joseph," said the major, in a tone of disapproval, "you are too free spoken.

I understand you have been complaining to Doctor Raymond's daughter of the way I dress you." "Did Oscar tell you the way that happened ?" inquired Joe.
"I apprehend he did not." "When I was walking home with Miss Annie Raymond, Oscar came up and insulted me, calling me a ragamuffin.

I told him that, if I was a ragamuffin, it was not my fault." Major Norton looked disturbed.
"Oscar was inconsiderate," he said.

"It seems to me that your clothes are suitable to your station in life.

It is not well for a boy in your circumstances to be 'clothed in purple and fine linen,' as the Scriptures express it.