CHAPTER VI.
FATE IN A LAURELLED POST-CHAISE All the tongues of Rumour agreed that the Bayfield entertainment had been a success, and Endymion Westcote received many congratulations upon it at the next meeting of magistrates.
"Nonsense, nonsense!" he protested lightly.

"One must do something to make life more tolerable to the poor devils, and 'pon my word 'twas worth it to see their gratitude.

They behaved admirably.

You see, two- thirds of them are gentlemen, after a fashion; not, perhaps, quite in the sense in which we understand the word, but then the--ah--modicum of French blood in my veins counteracts, I dare say, some little insular prejudices." "My dear fellow, about such men as de Tocqueville and Rochambeau there can be no possible question." "Ah! I'm extremely glad to hear you say so.

I feared, perhaps, the way they managed their table-napkins--" "Not at all.