No ten or twenty combined voices expressed, by their clamorous negation of the last-proposed process, that their Undy was above reproach.

The eyes around looked into him with no friendly alacrity.

Undy, Undy, more cheek still, still more cheek, or you are surely lost.
'If,' said he, in a well-assumed indignant tone of injured innocence, 'there be any in the club who do suspect me of anything unbecoming a gentleman in this affair, I am willing to retire from it till the matter shall have been investigated; but in such case I demand that the investigation be immediate.' Oh, Undy, Undy, the supply of cheek is not bad; it is all but unlimited; but yet it suffices thee not.

'Can there be positions in this modern West End world of mine,' thought Undy to himself, 'in which cheek, unbounded cheek, will not suffice ?' Oh, Undy, they are rare; but still there are such, and this, unfortunately for thee, seemeth to be one of them.
And then got up a discreet old baronet, one who moveth not often in the affairs around him, but who, when he moveth, stirreth many waters; a man of broad acres, and a quiet, well-assured fame which has grown to him without his seeking it, as barnacles grow to the stout keel when it has been long a-swimming; him, of all men, would Undy have wished to see unconcerned with these matters.
Not in many words, nor eloquent did Sir Thomas speak.

'He felt it his duty,' he said, 'to second the proposal made by Mr.Scott for removing Mr.Tudor from amongst them.