I never knew your prejudices beyond reasoning with." "Mr.Latrigg, leave my prejudices, as you call them, alone.

To-day I am not in the humor either to defend them or repent of them." They talked for some time longer,--talked until the squire felt bored with Steve's plans.

The young man kept hoping every moment to say something that would retrieve his previous blunders; but who can please those who are determined not to be pleased?
And yet Sandal was annoyed at his own injustice, and then still more annoyed at Steve for causing him to be unjust.

Besides which, the young man's eagerness for change, his enthusiasms and ambitions, offended him in a particular way that morning; for he had had an unpleasant letter from his son Harry, who was not eager and enthusiastic and ambitious, but lazy, extravagant, and quite commonplace.

Also Charlotte had not cared to come out with him, and the immeasurable self-complacency of his nephew Julius had really quite spoiled his breakfast; and then, below all, there was that disagreeable feeling about the Latriggs.
So Stephen did not conciliate Sandal, and he was himself very much grieved at the squire's evident refusal of his friendly advances.