They had returned back towards the bookstall, and Bozzle, with his eyes fixed on a copy of the "D.

R." which he had just bought, was straining his ears to the utmost to catch what was being said.
"You best know whether you have seen her or not." "I have seen her." "Then I shall take leave to tell you, Colonel Osborne, that you have acted in a most unfriendly way, and have done that which must tend to keep an affectionate husband apart from his wife." "Sir, I don't at all understand this kind of thing addressed to me.
The father of the lady you are speaking of has been my most intimate friend for thirty years." After all, the Colonel was a mean man when he could take pride in his youth, and defend himself on the score of his age, in one and the same proceeding.
"I have nothing further to say," replied Stanbury.
"You have said too much already, Mr.Stanbury." "I think not, Colonel Osborne.

You have, I fear, done an incredible deal of mischief by going to Nuncombe Putney; and, after all that you have heard on the subject, you must have known that it would be mischievous.

I cannot understand how you can force yourself about a man's wife against the man's expressed wish." "Sir, I didn't force myself upon anybody.

Sir, I went down to see an old friend,--and a remarkable piece of antiquity.