13/14 Who knows her best, do you think--you or I? Now to that I will not submit, and I require you to apologize to me." "I have no apology to make, and nothing to retract." "Then I shall tell your father of your gross misconduct, and shall warn him that you have made it necessary for me to turn his son out of my house. You are an impertinent, overbearing puppy, and if your name were not the same as my own, I would tell the grooms to horsewhip you off the place." "Which order, you know, the grooms would not obey. They would a deal sooner horsewhip you. Sometimes I think they will, when I hear you speak to them." "Now go!" "Of course I shall go. |