I give you fair warning, you and your Committee, you'll not turn me out without a fight! I was never given no proper notice--and there are plenty as 'll stand by me.' The voice was thick and angry, and the hand shook.

Sir Henry drew his horse away, and the man's hold dropped.
'Of course you had every notice,' said Sir Henry drily.
'I hadn't,' the man persisted.

'If the letters as they talk of were sent, I never saw 'em.

And when the Committee came I was out--on business.

Can't a man be out on his lawful business, Sir Henry, instead of dancin' attendance on men as know no better than he?
The way this Government is doing things--you might as well live under the Czar of Russia as in this country.