I am infinitely obliged by your politeness, and I have the honour to wish you all a very good evening.' As the servants, still greatly mystified, crowded out of the sickroom door, curtseying, pulling the forelock, scraping with the foot, and so on, according to their degree, I turned and stole a look at my cousin.
He had borne this crushing public rebuke without change of countenance.
He stood, now, very upright, with folded arms, and looking inscrutably at the roof of the apartment.

I could not refuse him at that moment the tribute of my admiration.

Still more so when, the last of the domestics having filed through the doorway and left us alone with my great-uncle and the lawyer, he took one step forward towards the bed, made a dignified reverence, and addressed the man who had just condemned him to ruin.
'My lord,' said he, 'you are pleased to treat me in a manner which my gratitude, and your state, equally forbid me to call in question.

It will be only necessary for me to call your attention to the length of time in which I have been taught to regard myself as your heir.

In that position, I judged it only loyal to permit myself a certain scale of expenditure.