I thought I saw him leer in an ugly way at me while the decanters were going round, but as there was no love lost between us, that might easily be.

What was my indignant surprise when he called upon the company to pledge him to "Estella!" "Estella who ?" said I.
"Never you mind," retorted Drummle.
"Estella of where ?" said I."You are bound to say of where." Which he was, as a Finch.
"Of Richmond, gentlemen," said Drummle, putting me out of the question, "and a peerless beauty." Much he knew about peerless beauties, a mean, miserable idiot! I whispered Herbert.
"I know that lady," said Herbert, across the table, when the toast had been honored.
"Do you ?" said Drummle.
"And so do I," I added, with a scarlet face.
"Do you ?" said Drummle.

"O, Lord!" This was the only retort--except glass or crockery--that the heavy creature was capable of making; but, I became as highly incensed by it as if it had been barbed with wit, and I immediately rose in my place and said that I could not but regard it as being like the honorable Finch's impudence to come down to that Grove,--we always talked about coming down to that Grove, as a neat Parliamentary turn of expression,--down to that Grove, proposing a lady of whom he knew nothing.

Mr.Drummle, upon this, starting up, demanded what I meant by that?
Whereupon I made him the extreme reply that I believed he knew where I was to be found.
Whether it was possible in a Christian country to get on without blood, after this, was a question on which the Finches were divided.

The debate upon it grew so lively, indeed, that at least six more honorable members told six more, during the discussion, that they believed they knew where they were to be found.