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"Louise, I command"--Mr. Baron began, almost choking with rage.
"No, uncle," replied the girl, "you COMMAND me no more ... Request
me politely, and I will shake hands with Lieutenant Scoville, thank
him for his courtesy to me and to us all, and then go with you."
The old man turned on his heel and walked back to the house without
a word.
"Bravo!" whispered Scoville, but he felt her hand tremble on his
arm. "That's your true course," he added. "Insist on the treatment
due your age, act like a lady, and you will be safe."
"Well," Mrs. Whately tried to say politely, "have not you young
people taken an ell?"
"No, Mrs. Whately," Scoville replied gravely. "We have not taken a
step out of our way between here and the quarters, although we have
lingered in conversation. We have ever been in plain sight of many
of your people. I put the overseer under arrest because I had
absolute proof of his malicious hostility. I shall inflict no injury
on any one who does not threaten to be dangerous to my command, my
duty requiring that I draw the line sharply there.
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