I know how to treat gentry of that sort, whether their faces are black or white." "Sir," said I, "I meant no harm by coming here, and I do not know how I have deserved this extraordinary outburst.

Allow me to observe, however, that you are still covering me with your pistol, and that, as your hand is rather tremulous, it is more than possible that it may go off.

If you don't turn the muzzle down I shall be compelled in self-defence to strike you over the wrist with my stick." "What the deuce brought you here, then ?" he asked, in a more composed voice, putting his weapon back into his bosom.

"Can't a gentleman live quietly without your coming to peep and pry?
Have you no business of your own to look after, eh?
And my daughter?
how came you to know anything of her?
and what have you been trying to squeeze out of her?
It wasn't chance that brought you here." "No," said I boldly, "it was not chance which brought me here.

I have had several opportunities of seeing your daughter and of appreciating her many noble qualities.