My profession is a peaceful one; but even a peaceful man, if assaulted, may defend himself.

You say it's unpleasant to know that if you travel with a man in a black coat he may be a traitor.

It's quite as unpleasant to me to know that if I travel with a man in a brown one he may be a notorious ruffian, and may as likely as not have just served his time in a penitentiary." Two or three of the passengers laughed loudly.

The man, starting up, crossed the car to where Vincent was sitting and laid his hand roughly on his shoulder.
"You have got to get out!" he said.

"No man insults Jim Mullens twice." "Take your hand off my shoulder," Vincent said quietly, "or you will be sorry for it." The man shifted his hold to the collar of Vincent's coat amid cries of shame from some of the passengers, while the others were silent, even those of his own party objecting to an assault upon a minister.