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understood; for surely there must be some one word that would reach

Sam's mind, soht his perplexity to Dr Lavendar, he was only told to hold his

tongue and keep his hands off The senior warden said to hietting old, "Well, I

o his

own gait! I don't knohere he gets his stubbornness from I myself

am the most reasonable man in the world All I ever ask is to be

allowed to follow ment I asked his mother if obstinacy was

a characteristic of her family, and she assured me it was not

Certainly Eliza herself has no will of her own I don't think a good

woman ever has And, as I say, I never insisted upon my oay in my

life--except, of course, in ht"