9/27 Why should I trouble myself to come down all alone of an evening, and look after a fellow I don't care a pin for? Why the devil should he go down? It's all the Baroness's doing, and if she says a thing, it must be done; so you must just get up and come." Mr.Esmond delivered these words with the most amiable rapidity and indistinctness, running them into one another, and tacking about the room as he spoke. But the young Virginian was in great wrath. |