Result: The two buyers bought beasts elsewhere and, as you would understand, on a cattle station, butchers may not be flouted.

Though I daresay,' Lady Bridget added with a shrug, 'if I could have had the butchers in the house--I draw the line only at Harris--and had sung to them and played up generally, I might have scored even off Mrs Hensor.

But they wouldn't come until after she had gone and there was no further danger of a duel taking place outside the Bachelors' Quarters.' Maule took her cue again and laughed as if the matter were one to jest about.

But as he looked round, his face did not suggest merriment.

Nor for that matter did the landscape.