'This is the only thing that has arrived.' 'This!' shrieked the miserable man.

'I never heard of it!' 'It came addressed in your hand,' replied Julia; 'we had nearly to pull the house down to get it in, that is all that I can tell you.' Morris gazed at her in utter bewilderment.

He passed his hand over his forehead; he leaned against the wall like a man about to faint.

Then his tongue was loosed, and he overwhelmed the girl with torrents of abuse.
Such fire, such directness, such a choice of ungentlemanly language, none had ever before suspected Morris to possess; and the girl trembled and shrank before his fury.
'You shall not speak to Miss Hazeltine in that way,' said Gideon sternly.

'It is what I will not suffer.' 'I shall speak to the girl as I like,' returned Morris, with a fresh outburst of anger.