"If you use oaths in my presence again, I shall ring for my servant, and order him to show you out of the house." "You will ?" "I will, most certainly." There was a moment's pause, and the blackguard and the gentleman looked one another straight in the face.

It was the old, invariable struggle, between the quiet firmness of good breeding, and the savage obstinacy of bad; and it ended in the old, invariable way.

The blackguard flinched first.
"If your servant lays a finger on me, I'll thrash him within an inch of his life," said Jubber, looking towards the door, and scowling as he looked.

"But that's not the point, just now--the point is, that I charge you with getting my deaf and dumb girl into your house, to perform before you on the sly.

If you're too virtuous to come to my circus--and better than you have been there--you ought to have paid the proper price for a private performance.