“I shall ask you to leave home and try to do your duty in this busy world.”
“Thanks, father,” said the young man, roughly. “What am I to be?”
“Three years ago I felt that I was doing wrong in keeping you in idleness at home.”
“Idle? Why, I was always busy, father.”
“Yes—hunting, shooting, fishing, and the like; but you did not stop there.”
“Oh, nonsense?”
“To-day I feel certain that I should be doing a great injustice to the parish—to your mother—to your sisters—”
“Any one else?” said the young man, mockingly.
“To you,” replied his father, sternly.
“Any one else?”