Hugh was insolent, and the superintendent resented it.
The only proof of the rising anger in the breast of O'Hara was the vigorous puffing of his pipe.

Tom, as I have said, was too awed to say anything at all.
"I am of age and free born," growled Hugh, looking into the glowing embers and speaking as if to himself; "where I go and what I do concerns no one but myself." "Not so long as you go to the proper place and do only what is right," said Harvey, who, sitting back a few feet from the fire, looked calmly at the fellow whose rough profile was outlined against the fiery background behind him.
"Men interpret right according to their own ideas, and they seldom agree, but most people will pronounce that person the worst sort of knave who robs poor men of what they earn and looks upon them as he looks upon the beasts of the field--worth only the amount of money they bring to him.".