"Let be, let be," the people would say.

"When Mr.Fred Massingbird comes home, Roy'll get called to account, and receive his deserts;" a fond belief in which all did not join.

Many entertained a shrewd suspicion that Mr.Fred Massingbird was too much inclined to be a tyrant on his own account, to disapprove of the acts of Roy.

Lionel's blood often boiled at what he saw and heard, and he wished he could put miles between himself and Deerham..