The question is, Which of us will undertake it?
You have the natural right, of course--" Brother Bonaday winced.
"No, no--" he protested.
"I should have said, the natural obligation.

But you are frail just now, and I doubt if you are equal to it." "Copas!.

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You're not proposing to _whip_ her ?" Brother Copas chuckled grimly.