You set up shop, and I will take a fraternal interest in the number of animals you kill, and always tell you with conscientious care when the beef you supply to me is tough.

And in the meantime, tell me, like a good fellow, why you stick to this thing.

When you flung from me last time you gave me no explanation of what you thought." "At least," cried Alec, wrath rising at the memory of that quarrel, "I gave you a fair hearing, and knew what you thought." When anger began he looked his brother full in the face, thus noticing how thin that face was, too thin for a man in the prime of life, and the eye was too bright.

As the brief feeling of annoyance subsided, the habitual charm of the elder man's smile made him continue to look at him.
"And yet," continued Robert, "two wrongs do not make a right.

That I am a snob does not excuse you for taking up any line of life short of the noblest within your reach." The other again warned himself against hidden danger.