"I go myself to Fair View to-morrow, and then I shall ask you to drink with me again." As he spoke he held out his hand.

MacLean looked at it, sighed, then touched it with his own.

A gleam as of wintry laughter came into his blue eyes.

"I doubt that I shall have to get me a new foe," he said, with regret in his voice.
When he had bowed to the lady and to her father, and had gone out of the room and down the lilac-bordered path and through the gate, and when the three at the window had watched him turn into Duke of Gloucester Street, the master of Westover looked at the master of Fair View and burst out laughing.

"Ludwell hath for an overseer the scapegrace younger son of a baronet; and there are three brothers of an excellent name under indentures to Robert Carter.