"no; but before i go on," said stryver, shaking his head in his bullying way, "i'll have this out with you. you've been at doctor manette's house as much as i have, or more than i have. why, i have been ashamed of your moroseness there! your manners have been of that silent and sullen and hangdog kind, that, upon my life and soul, i have been ashamed of you, sydney!"