But you tell me I must sit quiet--I don't see how I can do that.

I was on the tramp till I broke down,--and I must go on the tramp again,--I can't be a burden on--on----" He broke off, unable to find words to express himself.

But his inward eagerness to test the character and attributes of the two human beings who had for the present constituted themselves as his guardians, made him tremble violently.

And Mr.Bunce looked at him with the scrutinising air of a connoisseur in the ailments of all and sundry.
"We are nervous,"-- he pronounced--"We are highly nervous.

And we are therefore not sure of ourselves.