The fruit drops when it is ripe." "Rather when the frost is on it, and the worm is in the core, and decay has progressed to rottenness! Speak you in this way to the hungry boy, whose eyes have long anticipated his appetite, and he may listen to you and be patient--I neither can nor will.

Look to it, Munro: I will not much longer submit to be imposed upon." "Nor I, Guy Rivers.

You forget yourself greatly, and entirely mistake me, when you take these airs upon you.

You are feverish now, and I will not suffer myself to grow angry; but be prudent in your speech.

We shall see to all this to-morrow and the next day--there is quite time enough--when we are both cooler and calmer than at present.