"I am, I hope, too good a patriot to be a secessionist, much less a _rebel_." For a moment they looked straight at each other.

Wade's eyes snapped, and his hands clinched.
"Here, here!--come, none of that!" exclaimed Kit, "or I'll thrash both of you.

Wade, you are to blame.

You said the first unkind thing.

You ought to ask his pardon." "He needn't do that," said Raed.