"I had some quills to make into pens. Most men's hands would have trembled when their hearts were so stirred; mine went to work steadily, and my voice, when I called it into exercise, was firm.
"'This day week you will be alone at Fieldhead, Miss Keeldar.'
"'Yes: I rather think my uncle's intention to go is a settled one now.'
"'He leaves you dissatisfied.'
"'He is not pleased with me.'
"'He departs as he came—no better for his journey. This is mortifying.'
"'I trust the failure of his plans will take from him all inclination to lay new ones.'
"'In his way Mr. Sympson honestly wished you well. All he has done or intended to do he believed to be for the best.'
"'You are kind to undertake the defence of a man who has permitted himself to treat you with so much insolence.'
"'I never feel shocked at, or bear malice for, what is spoken in character; and most perfectly in character was that vulgar and violent onset against me, when he had quitted you worsted.'