Lord could scarcely hear:
"I didn't think that; but you see I ought to go home, for Uncle
Dan'l will worry about me; an', besides, I don't like a circus very
well."
Again there was silence on Mr. Lord's part, and again the crooked
eye glowered down on Toby.
"So," he said -- and Toby could see that his anger was rising very
fast -- "you don't like a circus very well, an' you begin to think
that your uncle Daniel will worry about you, eh? Well, I want you
to understand that it don't make any difference to me whether you
like a circus or not, and I don't care how much your uncle Daniel
worries. You mean that you want to get away from me, after I've
been to all the trouble and expense of teaching you the business?"
Toby bent his head over the pail and stirred away as if for dear
life.
"If you think you're going to get away from here until you've paid
me for all you've eat, an' all the time I've spent on you, you're
mistaken, that's all. You've had an easy time with me -- too easy,
in fact -- and that's what ails you. Now you just let me hear two
words more out of your head about going away -- only two more --
an' I'll show you what a whipping is. I've only been playing with
you before when you thought you were getting a whipping; but you'll
find out what it means if I so much as see a thought in your eyes
about goin' away. An' don't you dare to try to give me the slip in
the night an run away; for if you do I'll follow you an' have you
arrested.
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