from me too, which, by the way, I have not yet earned,--I would rather
you had let me die in the workhouse.

MAJ. T.
For what do you take me? You owe me nothing; and I will recommend you
to one of my friends, with whom you will fare better than with me.

JUST.
I do not owe you anything, and yet you turn me away!

MAJ. T.
Because I do not wish to owe you anything.

JUST.
On that account? Only on that account? As certain as I am in your
debt, as certain as you can never be in mine, so certainly shall you
not turn me away now. Do what you will, Major, I remain in your
service; I must remain.

MAJ. T.
With your obstinacy, your insolence, your savage boisterous temper
towards all who you think have no business to speak to you, your
malicious pranks, your love of revenge,--

JUST.
Make me as bad as you will, I shall not think worse of myself than of
my dog. Last winter I was walking one evening at dusk along the river,
when I heard something whine. I stooped down, and reached in the
direction whence the sound came, and when I thought I was saving a
child, I pulled a dog out of the water. That is well, thought I. The