Oh, I know the trouble and grief he brought about, but by gracious, he had a cause.

If--if--mother didn't love him, why did she say that if he didn't love her she would go away somewhere and grieve herself to death?
That was no way to treat a fellow, especially a fellow that loves you like the mischief.

And besides, why did father cut him out?
Pretty mean thing for a man to slip around and steal his brother's sweetheart.

In this country it would mean blood." "You are a jewel, my boy." "No, I'm simply just.

Of course, two wrongs don't make a right, as the saying has it, but a wrong with a cause is half-way right, and I'll tell them at the very start that they better not talk about the matter.