Suppose you change places with me, and try to speak when everybody's howling against you.

However, I don't complain.

Somebody must be on the losing side, and as all of you take care to be on the winning.

I'll do without you." Pledge certainly knew his audience.

He had hit them cleverly on a weak point--the point of chivalry; and had he been content to rest where he was, he might even yet have saved a following for himself in Templeton.
But he went on-- "Our three young friends have told you a pretty story, which has highly amused you.