A caricature was really due to him, he thought; otherwise why had he abandoned his bijou dwelling?
Lady Camper, however, sent none.

He had to wait a fortnight before one came, and that was rather a likeness, and a handsome likeness, except as regarded a certain disorderliness in his dress, which he knew to be very unlike him.

Still it despatched him to the looking-glass, to bring that verifier of facts in evidence against the sketch.

While sitting there he heard the housemaid's knock at the door, and the strange intelligence that his daughter was with Lady Camper, and had left word that she hoped he would not forget his engagement to go to Mrs.Baerens' lawn-party.
The General jumped away from the glass, shouting at the absent Elizabeth in a fit of wrath so foreign to him, that he returned hurriedly to have another look at himself, and exclaimed at the pitch of his voice, 'I say I attribute it to an indigestion of that tonic.

Do you hear ?' The housemaid faintly answered outside the door that she did, alarming him, for there seemed to be confusion somewhere.