What do you mean by treating a public servant, like me, with your infernal aristocratic looks, as if I was dirt under your feet, after such shabby doings as you've been guilty of--eh ?" "May I ask how you know that the child you refer to has been at my house to-day ?" asked Doctor Joyce, without taking the slightest notice of Mr.
Jubber's indignation.
"One of my people saw that swindling hypocrite of a Peckover taking her in, and told me of it when I missed them at dinner.

There! that's good evidence, I rather think! Deny it if you can." "I have not the slightest intention of denying it.

The child is now in my house." "And has gone through all her performances, of course?
Ah! shabby! shabby! I should be ashamed of myself, if _I'd_ tried to do a man out of his rights like that." "I am most unaffectedly rejoiced to hear that you are capable, under any circumstances, of being ashamed of yourself at all," rejoined the rector.

"The child, however, has gone through no performances here, not having been sent for with any such purpose as you suppose.

But, as you said just now, that's not the point.