All the time he was speaking, she kept touching me gently with her fingers.
When he had finished his account of rescuing me from Jenkins, she said, quietly: "You will have the man punished ?" "What is the use?
That won't stop him from being cruel." "It will put a check on his cruelty." "I don't think it would do any good," said the young man, doggedly.
"Cousin Harry!" and the young girl stood up very straight and tall, her brown eyes flashing, and one hand pointing at me; "will you let that pass?
That animal has been wronged, it looks to you to right it.

The coward who has maimed it for life should be punished.

A child has a voice to tell its wrong a poor, dumb creature must suffer in silence; in bitter, bitter silence.

And," eagerly, as the young man tried to interrupt her, "you are doing the man himself an injustice.

If he is bad enough to ill-treat his dog, he will ill-treat his wife and children.