Quaat true.' He bellowed on a laugh the last half of the quotation.
Colney marked him.

His encounters with Fenellan were enlivening engagements and left no malice; only a regret, when the fencing passed his guard, that Fenellan should prefer to flash for the minute.

He would have met a pert defender of England, in the person of Miss Priscilla Graves, if she had not been occupied with observation of the bearing of Lady Grace Halley toward Mr.Victor Radnor; which displeased her on behalf of Mrs.Victor; she was besides hostile by race and class to an aristocratic assumption of licence.

Sparing Colney, she with some scorn condemned Mr.Pempton for allowing his country to be ridiculed without a word.

Mr.Pempton believed that the Vegetarian movement was more progressive in England than in other lands, but he was at the disadvantage with the fair Priscilla, that eulogy of his compatriots on this account would win her coldest approval.