It makes a coward of a man or boy to do anybody an injury.
'Pray, what business brings you here, young Fern ?' he asked in a gruff voice.
'Sir,' said Stephen firmly, but without any insolence of manner, 'I want to know who has turned us out of our own house.

Is it the lord of the manor, or you ?' 'I've bought the place for myself,' answered the master, bringing his hand down with a heavy blow upon the table before him, as if he would like to knock Stephen down with the same force.
'There's nobody to sell it but me,' said the boy.
'You think so, my lad, do you?
Why, if it were your own, you would have no power over it till you are one-and-twenty.

But the place was your grandfather's, and he has sold it to me for L15.

When your grandfather returned from transportation his wife's hut became his; and his right to it does not go over to anybody else till he is dead.

It never belonged to your father; and you can have no right to it.