He and Howell Edwards would dine and wrangle it out.

The earl knew himself a hot disputant after dinner.
Incidentally he heard of Lady Fleetwood as a guest of Mrs.Wythan; and the circumstance was injurious to him because he stood against Mr.
Wythan's pampering system with his men.
Ines up at the castle smelt of beer, and his eyelids were sottish.
Nothing to do tries the virtue of the best.

He sought his excuse in a heavy lamentation over my lady's unjust suspicion of him,--a known man of honour, though he did serve his paytron.
The cause of Lady Fleetwood's absence was exposed to her outraged lord, who had sent the man purely to protect her at this castle, where she insisted on staying.

The suspicion cast on the dreary lusher was the wife's wild shot at her husband.

One could understand a silly woman's passing terror.