dog! A serf! Forced my brother to

draw upon him, and has fallen by my brother’s swordlike a

gentleman.’

“There was no touch of pity, sorrow, or kindred humanity in

this answer. The speaker seemed to acknowledge that it was

inconvenient to have that different order of creature dying there,

and that it would have been better if he had died in the usual

obscure routine of his vermin kind. He was quite incapable of any

compassionate feeling about the boy, or about his fate.

“The boy’s eyes had slowly moved to him as he had spoken, and

they now slowly moved to me.

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“‘Doctor, they are very proud, these Nobles; but we common

dogs are proud too, sometimes. They plunder us, outrage us, beat

us, kill us; but we have a little pride left, sometimes. Shehave

you seen her, Doctor?’

“The shrieks and the cries were audible there, though subdued

by the distance. He referred to them, as if she were lying in our

presence.

“I said, ‘I have seen her.’

“‘She is my sister, Doctor. They have had their shameful rights,

these Nobles. in the modesty and virtue of our sisters, many years,

but we have had good girls among us. I know it, and have heard

my father say so. She was a good girl. She was betrothed to a good

young man, too: a tenant of his. We were all tenants of histhat

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