David Hume, notwithstanding his past, may still be deemed a man of honour in some respects.

He treated me grossly this morning.

Will he fight me, or must I treat him as a cur ?" Brett, without invitation, seated himself.

He produced a cigarette and lit it, adding greatly to Capella's irritation by his provoking calmness.
"Really," he said at last, "you amuse me." "Silence!" he cried imperatively, when the Italian would have broken out into a torrent of expostulations.

"Listen to me, you vain fool!" This method of address had the rare merit of achieving its object.