Justice, according to his idea, consisted in vengeance.

And he was fond of justice.

He did not want to punish the innocent, it is true; but I doubt whether the discovery of a boy's innocence was not a disappointment to him.

Without a word of expostulation or defence, the boy held out his hand, with his arm at full length, received four stinging blows upon it, grew very red in the face, gave a kind of grotesque smile, and returned to his seat with the suffering hand sent into retirement in his trowsers-pocket.

Annie's admiration of his courage as well as of his looks, though perhaps unrecognizable as such by herself, may have had its share with her pity in the tears that followed.