16/17 Most of them part enemies, but he and I part friends and well-wishers." "And you throw _me_ over as if I was nobody," said Richard, white with anger. You thought to make a cat's-paw of me. Well, you won't, then." "In other words, you have been bought off." "No, I have not. I am not to be bought by anybody--and I am not to be insulted by you, you ruffian! How dare you come here and affront a lady in her own house--a lady whose shoestrings your betters are ready to tie, you brute? |