4/12 That can be healed; but our family feud never can." "Why not, father ?" "Why not? What a question, when you are suffering now from the way in which the deadly hatred of the Edens comes out! Are you not wounded by a scion of the vile house ?" "Yes, father; but then young Eden is suffering too in the same way, and I think he got the worst of it." "I'm glad of it, Ralph. I think you behaved very bravely." "What; in fighting the robbers ?" "I did not mean that. I meant in defending yourself," said Sir Morton austerely. |