He'll resign." Dick coloured up, and looked a little foolish.

"I didn't mean that," he said.
"No very dreadful thing if you did back him up, eh ?" said the monitor, casually.

"It might disgust some of your friends in the Den, but you aren't obliged to toady to them." "Rather not," said Dick.
"Besides, a fellow may sometimes do what's right and not be an utter cad.

Perhaps you don't think so, though.

You'd cut a nobler figure, wouldn't you, dragging down your chums from one row to another, than by anything so paltry as doing right because it is right?
I quite understand that feeling." "Why do you talk to me like that ?" said Dick, feeling a sting in every word of the senior's speech.