'There are some bills of my lord's which need renewal; but let them be till you are well.

I--I--came,' said Ralph, speaking more slowly, and with harsher emphasis, 'I came to say how grieved I am that any relative of mine, although disowned by me, should have inflicted such punishment on you as--' 'Punishment!' interposed Sir Mulberry.
'I know it has been a severe one,' said Ralph, wilfully mistaking the meaning of the interruption, 'and that has made me the more anxious to tell you that I disown this vagabond--that I acknowledge him as no kin of mine--and that I leave him to take his deserts from you, and every man besides.

You may wring his neck if you please.

I shall not interfere.' 'This story that they tell me here, has got abroad then, has it ?' asked Sir Mulberry, clenching his hands and teeth.
'Noised in all directions,' replied Ralph.

'Every club and gaming-room has rung with it.