The things we do!

"It was a mercy Barnes was not there," says Ethel, gravely; "a fight
between him and Captain Belsize would have been awful indeed."
"I am afraid of no man, Ethel," says Barnes fiercely, with another oath.
"Hit one of your own size, Barnes," says Miss Ethel (who had a number of
school-phrases from her little brothers, and used them on occasions
skilfully). "Hit Captain Belsize, he has no friends."
As Jack Belsize from his height and strength was fitted to be not only an
officer but actually a private in his former gallant regiment, and
brother Barnes was but a puny young gentleman, the idea of a personal
conflict between them was rather ridiculous. Some notion of this sort may
have passed through Sir Brian's mind, for the Baronet said with his usual
solemnity, "It is the cause, Ethel, it is the cause, my dear, which gives
strength; in such a cause as Barnes's, with a beautiful young creature to
protect from a villain, any man would be strong, any man would be
strong.


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