Business men's pertinacity is a little wearisome, no doubt, to officers and members of the aristocracy like yourself; but all the same I must persist--how can you disprove this charge ?" The Seraph turned on him with a fierceness of a bloodhound.
"You dog! If you use that tone again in my presence, I will double-throng you till you cannot breathe!" Baroni laughed a little; he felt secure now, and could not resist the pleasure of braving and of torturing the "aristocrats." "I don't doubt your will or your strength, my lord; but neither do I doubt the force of the law to make you account for any brutality of the prize-ring your lordship may please to exert on me." The Seraph ground his heel into the carpet.
"We waste words on that wretch," he said abruptly to Cecil.

"Prove his insolence the lie it is, and we will deal with him later on." "Precisely what I said, my lord," murmured Baroni.

"Let Mr.Cecil prove his innocence." Into Bertie's eyes came a hunted, driven desperation.

He turned them on Rockingham with a look that cut him to the heart; yet the abhorrent thought crossed him--was it thus that men guiltless looked?
"Mr.Cecil was with my partner at 7:50 on the evening of the 15th.

It was long over business hours, but my partner to oblige him stretched a point," pursued the soft, bland, malicious voice of the German Jew.