In Sight of St. Paul's — page 54: what you’re looking at

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CROSS PURPOSES. 49 Still there was no reply. ‘‘Come, now, it’s no use. You know I’ve always been the peacemaker between you hot-headed, excit- able young men,’’ with a pretty assumption of vastly — superior age and wisdom, ‘‘and I’m not going to be dethroned because one is now of age, and the other— well, old enough to know better. Tell me all about it, and at once! And I’ll decide who is to hold out his hand first.’ At this, Harry turned toward her, his brow con- tracted in a heavy frown. 3 “T’ll never take his hand again!’’ he declared, sullenly. ‘“‘Oh, Harry!’ cried Aileen, in a shocked, dis- tressed tone. ‘‘Don’t, don’t speak like that! You for- get he is your brother !”’ “T wish I could!’ was the bitter response. ‘‘I can’t believe the same blood isin us. I hate myself for belonging to the same race!’’ ‘Oh, hush! hush!’’ cried Aileen,-with a shudder. ‘Harry!’ broke simultaneously from ‘Tom’s lips, in genuine horror. “But the headstrong young man was not to be: placated. He had worked himself up to a feeling that he had been outraged and insulted, and he was in no mood for reconciliation. ‘He has said to me to-night what I will never for- give,’’? he exclaimed to Aileen, with a fury he made Gomichooks:co