Chagrined, disarmed, he felt like a prisoner standing bound before his mocking captor.

"Then I fear my mission here is useless." "Entirely so, if you come for the purpose I suspect," said Hampton, sitting erect in his chair, and speaking with more rapid utterance.
"To lecture me on morality, and demand my yielding up all influence over this girl,--such a mission is assured of failure.

I have listened with some degree of calmness in this room already to one such address, and surrendered to its reasoning.

But permit me to say quite plainly, Lieutenant Brant, that you are not the person from whom I will quietly listen to another." "I had very little expectation that you would." "You should have had still less, and remained away entirely.

However, now that you are here, and the subject broached, it becomes my turn to say something, and to say it clearly.