Besides, young Tom had long since proved his strength equal to his father's, and remonstrance or rebuke would have produced no effect.
As to Bernel, he was only a boy as yet, but he was Nance's boy and all she would have wished him.
In time he would grow up and be a match for Tom, and meanwhile she would see to it that he grew up as different from Tom in every respect as it was possible for a boy to be..